AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 370X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1709MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +65%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Dec 2017

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

10

24

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

GP106

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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