GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon 540
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
9876
Radeon 540
1420
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon 540
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GP106
Lexa
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
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1183 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
384
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3