NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

AMD Radeon R7 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +509%

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

VS

Radeon R7 250

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

716.8 GFLOPS

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

55W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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