Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2015 Aug 2016
Generation Volcanic Islands GeForce 10
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 900 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz 1708 MHz
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 192bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 16
Shading Units 1024 1152
TMUs 64 72
ROPs 32 48
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 1536 KB
SM Count 9
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 81.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 59.20 GTexel/s 123.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.894 TFLOPS 3.935 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 118.4 GFLOPS 123.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 61.49 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn GP106
GPU Variant Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062) GP106-300-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 16 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 4.4 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 200 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 120W
Suggested PSU 450 W 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 5.1 6.4
CUDA 6.1