NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1709MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +107%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

45W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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