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

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AMD Radeon RX 560D NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560D and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560D 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1708MHz vs 1175MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560D

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +86%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560D

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

9

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1152

56

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GP106

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

65W

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 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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