NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1708MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +46%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

1152

Shading Units

1280

72

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Curacao

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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