NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 42% (1709MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +12%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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