GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon R9 285X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon R9 285X
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
GP106
Tonga
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1002 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
5,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
128.3
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.170
VR Ready
+
-