AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1708MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +130%

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2018

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

1708 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

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 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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