Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB - video card comparison
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2016
May 2017
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
1341 - 1480 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
1063 - 1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
60 - 70 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
6.144 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
-
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
+
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
VR Ready
-
+
ZeroCore
+
-