NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2016
Apr 2018
Generation
GeForce 10
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1506 MHz
1175 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1275 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1750 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
112.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
9
-
Shading Units
1152
1024
TMUs
72
64
ROPs
48
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
16

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
20.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
81.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
2.611 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
2.611 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP106
Polaris 21
GPU Variant
GP106-300-A1
Polaris 21 XT(215-0908004)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
16 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
3 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
123 mm²

Board Design

TDP
120W
75W
Suggested PSU
300 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.4

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
3,863
-
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,771
-
OctaneBench
76
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
29
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
44
-
Blender
188
-