NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 560

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1709MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

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

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +67%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +200%

9

Radeon RX 560

3

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +183%

34

Radeon RX 560

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +142%

51

Radeon RX 560

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +154%

28

Radeon RX 560

11

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +62%

52

Radeon RX 560

32

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +87%

75

Radeon RX 560

40

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

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 Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

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

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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