
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon 530X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon 530X
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GP106
Meso
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1021 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
730 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
784.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
384
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
24.50
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
32 GB/s
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
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
-