NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs AMD Radeon R7 260

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps NVIDIA · 2017-04
GPU AMD Radeon R7 260 AMD · 2013-12
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2017
Dec 2013
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
2257 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
216.7GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
—
Shading Units
1280
768
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
256 KB
Compute Units
—
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Bonaire
GPU Variant
GP106-410-A1
Bonaire PRO
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
95W
Suggested PSU
300 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
6.3
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.