GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and Radeon RX 640 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
Radeon RX 640
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GP106
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2017
August 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
1218 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1218 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
640
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
38.98
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
9028 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
216.7 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+