AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)

  • Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 155.1 GTexel / s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
  • Around 80% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1280
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
Texture fill rate 155.1 GTexel / s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

  • Around 34% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1120 MHz
  • Around 35% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1266 MHz
  • 754.3x better floating-point performance: 4,375 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 7000 MHz
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 1120 MHz
Boost clock speed 1709 MHz vs 1266 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 7000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Name AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
PassMark - G3D Mark 10074
PassMark - G2D Mark 749
Geekbench - OpenCL 35361
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 119.148
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1373.562
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.694
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.766
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 454.799
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12442
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12442
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4208

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Code name Ellesmere GP106
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 4 August 2016 19 July 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $450 $299
Place in performance rating not rated 346
Price now $299.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 30.62

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1266 MHz 1709 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1120 MHz 1506 MHz
Floating-point performance 5.8 TFLOPs 4,375 gflops
GPU Power 110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Pipelines 2304 1280
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 155.1 GTexel / s 136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 4,400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Length 250 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 8008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore

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