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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT 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 39% (1709MHz vs 1226MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

4.394 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1074 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

39.23 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 LE1

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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