NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 460

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon RX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1709MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +103%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +200%

9

Radeon RX 460

3

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +183%

34

Radeon RX 460

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +131%

51

Radeon RX 460

22

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon RX 460

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.20 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.150 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.150 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

134.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Baffin

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin PRO

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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