AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 84% (1708MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +313%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Dec 2016

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

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

512

Shading Units

1152

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GP104

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

123 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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