NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R9 285
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2018
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 10
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
-
Shading Units
1280
1792
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
29.38 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
102.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
3.290 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
3.290 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
205.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Tonga
GPU Variant
GP106-400-A1
Tonga PRO(215-0851128)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
5 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
366 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
190W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.5