Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Nov 2013 | Jan 2018 |
| 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 | 1709 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1400 MHz | 2002 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 6GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 192bit |
| Bandwidth | 179.2GB/s | 192.2GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 20 | |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 80 | 80 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 48 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 1536 KB |
| SM Count | 10 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.60 GPixel/s | 82.03 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 74.00 GTexel/s | 136.7 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.368 TFLOPS | 4.375 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 148.0 GFLOPS | 136.7 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 68.36 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Curacao | GP106 |
| GPU Variant | Curacao PRO(215-0848000) | GP106-400-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 | |