GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon 520
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
9876
Radeon 520
811
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon 520
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GP106
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
320
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
+