GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and Radeon R7 265 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
Radeon R7 265
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GP104
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
February 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
925 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
1,894 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
59.20
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.3 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
6.1
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
Vulkan
1.3
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-