In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual 6GB are noticeably better than the AMD Radeon R9 270X Crossfire.

The GTX 1060 has a 506 MHz higher core clock speed than the R9 270X, but the R9 270X has 80 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 1060. As a result, the R9 270X exhibits a 39.5 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GTX 1060. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GTX 1060 has a 506 MHz higher core clock speed but 16 fewer Render Output Units than the R9 270X. The lower ROP count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the GTX 1060 manages to provide 8.3 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The GTX 1060 was released over a year more recently than the R9 270X, and so the GTX 1060 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the R9 270X.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The GTX 1060 has 2048 MB more video memory than the R9 270X, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, the overall memory performance is about the same.

The R9 270X has 166.2 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 1060, which means that the memory performance of the R9 270X is massively better than the GTX 1060.

The GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual 6GB has 1280 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R9 270X Crossfire has 2560. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 1060 is 2953 and the actual shader performance of the R9 270X is 2285. The GTX 1060 having 668 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the R9 270X performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The GTX 1060 transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the R9 270X. This means that the GTX 1060 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the R9 270X.

The GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual 6GB requires 120 Watts to run and the Radeon R9 270X Crossfire requires 360 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the GTX 1060 and a PSU with at least 750 Watts for the R9 270X. The R9 270X requires 240 Watts more than the GTX 1060 to run. The difference is significant enough that the R9 270X may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GTX 1060.