NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 340 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 Clock has increased by 119% (1709MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 36.80GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +630%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 340 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon R5 340 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

36.80GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Oland

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

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 DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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