NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP 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 75% (1709MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +119%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

975 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

16

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

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

31.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 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

Trinidad

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

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

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