Radeon RX 470 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison
Radeon RX 470
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
June 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
1480 MHz
Core clock speed
926 MHz
1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
FreeSync
+
-