Radeon RX 560 vs GeForce GTX 1060

Radeon RX 560
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 560
GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 560

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 560GeForce GTX 1060
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin XT)vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs16 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders1024vs1280
Compute Units16vs10
Core clock1090 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs64vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 560GeForce GTX 1060
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 560GeForce GTX 1060
TDP75 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs10 Jul 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560
    19.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560
    76.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 560
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 560
    2457.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better