AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2013
Unknown
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
1001 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
256.3GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
10

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
109.4 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
GP104
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
314 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

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