Radeon R7 260X and GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 - video card comparison
Radeon R7 260X
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Bonaire
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
December 2016
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1708 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
1152
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
61.60
123.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-