NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 340X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +533%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 340X OEM

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

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Radeon R5 340X OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Oland

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

Oland XT (215-0837000)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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