GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
9876
Radeon RX 540
2872
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GP106
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
512
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
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
+
-
FreeSync
-
+