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

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX 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 45% (1709MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

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

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +107%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

Radeon RX 560DX

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Apr 2018

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

1709 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

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

136.7 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

GP106

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

200 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs MTT S30

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7750

4

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

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4010

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 4520

Related News

1

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

2

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

3

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

4

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

5

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

6

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

7

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

8

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

9

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

10

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market