AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1708MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +48%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Dec 2016

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

2304

Shading Units

1152

144

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 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

GP104

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

314 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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