NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1709MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +12%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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