AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +121%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

896

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GP104

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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