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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon R5 230

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
Radeon R5 230
228

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Radeon R5 230


Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name
GP106
Caicos

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
July 2016
April 2014

Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
N/A

Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-

Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-

Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
200.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
4,400 million
370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
160

Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
19 Watt

Texture fill rate
136.7
5.000

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3

Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit

Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
-

Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
10.67 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Eyefinity
-
1

HDMI
+
+

DisplayPort support
-
-

G-SYNC support
+
-

DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11

CUDA
6.1
-

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.4

Shader Model
6.4
5.0

Vulkan
1.2.131
-

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
-
1

DDMA audio
-
-

Enduro
-
-

HD3D
-
-

​PowerPlay
-
+

PowerTune
-
-

TrueAudio
-
-

VR Ready
+
-

ZeroCore
-
-