AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2016
Oct 2018
Generation
Arctic Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
-
Shading Units
2304
1280
TMUs
144
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
SM Count
-
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
68.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GP104
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Pascal
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
120W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
Shader Model
6.7
6.4
CUDA
-
6.1