AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1709MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +12%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3678

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +6%

3910

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +33%

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +60%

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +25%

50

Radeon RX 470

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Dec 2017

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GP106

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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