Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 540
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
GP104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
December 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
1708 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,248 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1152
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.01
123.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-