AMD Radeon RX 570X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon RX 570X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1708MHz vs 1244MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570X +29%

5.095 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Dec 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

9

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1152

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GP104

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 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 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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