AMD Radeon R7 265 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R7 265

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1709MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 265

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +130%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Dec 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 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

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP106

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 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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