NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs AMD Radeon 520

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and AMD Radeon 520 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

  • Around 46% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1030 MHz
  • Around 66% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1030 MHz
  • 4x more pipelines: 1280 vs 320
  • 6.6x better floating-point performance: 4,375 gflops vs 660 GFLOPs
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 9028 MHz vs 4500 MHz
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 1030 MHz
Boost clock speed 1709 MHz vs 1030 MHz
Pipelines 1280 vs 320
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops vs 660 GFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 9028 MHz vs 4500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 520

  • 150.7x more texture fill rate: 20.60 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 120 Watt
Texture fill rate 20.60 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 520

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps AMD Radeon 520
PassMark - G3D Mark 864
PassMark - G2D Mark 202
Geekbench - OpenCL 26304
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1182
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1182
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1242
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1242
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps AMD Radeon 520

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP106 Oland
Launch date 20 April 2017 18 April 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Place in performance rating not rated 1105
Type Desktop Desktop, Laptop
Design Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation 1st Gen

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1709 MHz 1030 MHz
Core clock speed 1506 MHz 1030 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops 660 GFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1280 320
Texture fill rate 136.7 GTexel / s 20.60 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 1,040 million
Compute units 5
Pixel fill rate 4.10 GP/s
Render output units 4
Stream Processors 320
Texture Units 20

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Length 250 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 216.6 GB / s 48 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 64 bit
Memory clock speed 9028 MHz 4500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)