AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1708MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +46%

3.935 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270X

1769

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +117%

3849

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

1280

Shading Units

1152

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GP106

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GP106-300-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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