AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 Sky 500 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +61%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Aug 2016

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

1280

Shading Units

1152

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP106

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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