Radeon RX 560 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 560 Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 Advantages
Released 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1708MHz vs 1275MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 560
2611
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
+67%
4372
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 560
1855
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
+126%
4203
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 560
799
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
+139%
1917
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Mar 2018
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1175 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1275 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
112.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
10
1024
Shading Units
1280
64
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
20.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
81.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.6 GTexel/s
2.611 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
68.32 GFLOPS
2.611 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.372 TFLOPS
163.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
120W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 21
GPU Name
GP104
Polaris 21 XT
(215-0908004)
(215-0908004)
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
16 nm
3 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
