NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs ATI Radeon HD 4520

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 ATI Radeon HD 4520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1072 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +3998%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4520

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

Radeon HD 4520

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Dec 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

1

1152

Shading Units

80

72

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

RV710

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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