GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and Radeon RX 570 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
Radeon RX 570 X2
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GP104
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
1206 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
180 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
154.4
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
8.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
256.3 GB/s
268.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
Vulkan
1.3
1.3