AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 560 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1708MHz vs 1275MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +50%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Dec 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

1024

Shading Units

1152

64

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GP104

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

123 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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