AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Full Specs

Summary

2,304 Shaders 1.27GHz	1,280 Shaders 1.71GHz
8GB GDDR5256GB/s	6GB GDDR5192GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 5.83 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 4.37 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 150W	TDP 120W
Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 FP64 Memory Bandwidth TDP

Radeon RX 4805.83 TFLOPSFP16

x1.33

GeForce GTX 10604.37 TFLOPSFP32

x1

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1266MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1708MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 5.83 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 4.37 TFLOPSFP32
FP32 5.83 TFLOPS	FP32 4.37 TFLOPS
FP64 364.6 GFLOPS	FP64 136.6 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 40.5 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 182.3 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 136.6 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 2,304 Shaders	Shaders 1,280 Shaders
TMUs 144 TMUs	TMUs 80 TMUs
ROPs 32 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
CUs 36 CUs	SMs 10 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 1.12GHz	Base Clock 1.51GHz
Boost Clock 1.27GHz	Boost Clock 1.71GHz

Cache

L1 16KB/CU	L1 48KB/SM
L2 Cache 2MB shared	L2 Cache 1.5MB shared

Memory

8GB GDDR5	6GB GDDR5
Memory Bus 256-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 8GT/s	Memory Speed 8GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 256GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 192GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 150W

TDP 120W

Video Output

Max Resolution 5120x2880	Max Resolution 7680x4320
Refresh Rate Calculator 5120x2880 Resolution5K Refresh Rate 60Hz	Refresh Rate Calculator 7680x4320 Resolution8K UHD Refresh Rate 30Hz
Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 3
Adaptive Sync - FreeSync	Adaptive Sync G-Sync FreeSync
DSC Not Supported	DSC Not Supported
HDCP HDCP 2.2	HDCP -

Ports

3x DisplayPort 1.4 1x HDMI 2.0 -

3x DisplayPort 1.4 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DVI-D Dual-Link

API Support

Shader Model 6.7	Shader Model 6.7
DirectX DirectX 12 Direct3D 12_0	DirectX DirectX 12 Direct3D 12_1
OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 2.1 Vulkan 1.3	OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3 Vulkan 1.3
CUDA - GFX 8 PureVideo HD - VDPAU -	CUDA 6.1 GFX - PureVideo HD VP8 VDPAU Feature Set H

Encoder

Encoder VCE 3.0	Encoder NVENC 4
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)

Decoder

Decoder UVD 6.3	Decoder NVDEC 3
Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 JPEG VC-1 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)	Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe PCIe 3.0 x16 2-Slots	PCIe PCIe 3.0 x16 2-Slots
Height 95mm (3.74") Width 240mm (9.45") Depth 35mm (1.38")	Height 112mm (4.41") Width 250mm (9.84") Depth 40mm (1.57")
Cooling Open-Air 1x Fan	Cooling Blower 1x Fan
Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin
Multi-GPU Multi-GPU Support Supported Multi-GPU Type CrossFire XDMA	Multi-GPU -

Chip

Manufacturer AMD	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer AMD	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture GCN 4	Architecture Pascal
Family Radeon R 400	Family GeForce 10
Branding	Branding
Codename Ellesmere	Codename NV136
Chip Variant Polaris 10 XL	Chip Variant GP106-300-A1
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Jun 29, 2016	Release Date Jul 19, 2016

Fabrication

Foundry GlobalFoundries	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 14LPP	Fabrication Node 16FF
Die Size 232mm²	Die Size 200mm²
Transistor Count 5.7B	Transistor Count 4.4B
Transistor Density 24.57 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 22 MTr/mm²

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