GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon RX 480 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
Radeon RX 480
8883
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon RX 480
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GP106
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
June 2016
Bus support
-
n/a
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
-
1
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1266 MHz
Compute units
-
36
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1120 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
5,834 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
182.3
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
2.0
DisplayPort support
-
1.4HDR
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
6.1
-
Mantle
-
n/a
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
AppAcceleration
-
n/a
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
n/a
FreeSync
-
+
FRTC
-
1
HD3D
-
n/a
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
+
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
n/a
UVD
-
+
VCE
-
+
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
+