
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon R9 270 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon R9 270
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
9876
Radeon R9 270
4435
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon R9 270
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GP106
Curacao
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
November 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
925 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
74.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
6.1
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-