GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GP104
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
320
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5X
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.3 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
5.0
Vulkan
1.3
-