Geforce gtx 1060 is slower than radeon rx 480 [rumor]

There is less and less time for the NDA to rise and we can see the first reviews of the GeForce GTX 1060, including ours. A new leak suggests that the new Nvidia card would be slower than its direct rival, the AMD Radeon RX 480. Is it true?

GeForce GTX 1060 excellent overclocking but inferior to the Radeon RX 480 in performance

The GeForce GTX 1060 promises to maintain all the benefits of Pascal architecture, including great overclocking capabilities just like its older sisters GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. The GeForce GTX 1060 has already shown itself capable of reaching 2 GHz in its model. reference (1, 709 MHz stock) with the fan at 61% (2000 RPM) and maintaining a temperature of 74 ºC so we are dealing with a fairly cool silicon even in overclocked conditions and without the need to greatly increase the fan speed.

We now turn to performance tests under DirectX 12 and OpenCL, the Radeon RX 480 is superior in Ashes of the Singularity which is not surprising either because AMD is known to do better with DirectX 12. The tests continue in OpenCL where the card AMD shows up as a more powerful option in five tests out of 7 totals, very good news for Sunnyvale's.

Ashes of the Singularity

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OpenCL performance

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060	AMD Radeon RX 480
Graphics Processing Unit	Pascal GP106	Polaris 10 XT
Fabrication Process	16nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Unified Cores	1280	2304
TMUs	80	144
ROPs	48	32
Base Clock	1506 MHz	1120 MHz
Boost Clock	1709 MHz	1266 MHz
Compute Performance (Base)	3.9 TFLOPs	5.2 TFLOPs
Compute Performance (Boost)	4.4 TFLOPs	5.8 TFLOPs
Memory configuration	6GB GDDR5	4/8 GB GDDR5
Bus interface	192-bit	256-bit
Memory speed	2000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	192 GB / s	256 GB / s
TDP	120W	150W
Launch Date	July 2016	June 2016
Launch Price	$ 249 MSRP $ 299 Founders Edition	$ 199 (4 GB) $ 239 (8 GB)

Source: videocardz