AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Ellesmere GP106
GPU variant Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204) GP106-400-A1
Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Manufacturing process 14 nm 16 nm
Number of transistors 5,700 million 4,400 million
Die size 232 mm² 200 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 4th, 2016 Jan 5th, 2018
Generation Arctic Islands GeForce 10
Production Active End-of-life
Launch price 179 USD 299 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 46 in our database 117 in our database
Predecessor Pirate Islands GeForce 900
Successor Polaris GeForce 20

Clocks

Base clock 926 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost clock 1206 MHz 1709 MHz
Memory clock 1650 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 6 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 211.2 GB/s 192.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2048 1280
TMUs 128 80
ROPs 32 48
Compute units 32
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 2 MB 1536 KB
SM count 10

Performance

Pixel rate 38.59 GPixel/s 82.03 GPixel/s
Texture rate 154.4 GTexel/s 136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 4.940 TFLOPS (1:1) 68.36 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 4.940 TFLOPS 4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 308.7 GFLOPS (1:16) 136.7 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 240 mm 9.4 inches 250 mm 9.8 inches
Width 95 mm 3.7 inches
Height 35 mm 1.4 inches
TDP 120 W 120 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 300 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number C940, D000-03, D009-07 PG410 SKU 31

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

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