NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1709MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +130%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 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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