Radeon R7 240 and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
Radeon R7 240
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Oland
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
October 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
780 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
499.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
14.00
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1150 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-