AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1709MHz vs 1226MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 XT

4.394 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Dec 2017

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1074 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1226 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

137.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

4.394 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

4.394 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

274.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 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

GP106

Polaris 10 LE1

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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