NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1709MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +1%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Oct 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

926 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

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

38.59 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

GP106

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

200 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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