AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1709MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

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

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +67%

4.375 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 560

3

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +200%

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 560

12

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +183%

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 560

21

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +142%

51

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 560

11

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +154%

28

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 560

32

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +62%

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

40

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +87%

75

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2018

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

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

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

82.03 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 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

GP104-150-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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