AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon R7 240

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 119% (1708MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +776%

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

320

Shading Units

1280

20

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

GP104

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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