GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs Radeon RX 480
Summary
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
100%
Radeon RX 480
130%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile |
| 70 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 480 . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480 |
| Around 30% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 480
The Radeon RX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile | | Radeon RX 480 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP106 (N17E-G1-A1) | vs | Ellesmere (Ellesmere XT) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 14 nm |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | vs | 232 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,400 million | vs | 5,700 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 2304 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 36 |
| Core clock | 1404 MHz | vs | 1120 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 144 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile | | Radeon RX 480 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective | vs | 2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 8192 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile | | Radeon RX 480 | |
|---|
| TDP | 80 watts | vs | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 15 Aug 2016 | vs | 29 Jun 2016 |
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
67.40 GP/s
Radeon RX 480
40.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
112.30 GT/s
Radeon RX 480
182.30 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
192.20 GB/s
Radeon RX 480
256.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
3594.00 GFLOPs
Radeon RX 480
5834.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
14100
Radeon RX 480
18430
Points (higher is better)