NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +2087%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1280

Shading Units

160

80

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Caicos

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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