NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 85% (1709MHz vs 925MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
+84%
4.375 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 270
2.368 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1709 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
1280
80
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
68.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.375 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Curacao
GP104-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
212 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
