NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 63% (1709MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +442%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250 OEM

0.806 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon R7 250 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.400 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.20 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

806.4 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.40 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 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Oland

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Oland XT (215-0837000)

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

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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