NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon RX 560D

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

AMD Radeon RX 560D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560D 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 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1708MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560D 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +107%

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560D

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

VS

Radeon RX 560D

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

65W

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 XL

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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