NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1709MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +33%

5.834 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +20%

452

Radeon RX 480

374

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Radeon RX 480 +88%

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Radeon RX 480 +2%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +2%

51

Radeon RX 480

50

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

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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