Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Dec 2010 | Unknown |
| Generation | Northern Islands | GeForce 10 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1001 MHz |
| Base Clock | 1506 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1709 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5X |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 160.0GB/s | 256.3GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 22 | |
| Shading Units | 1408 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 88 | 80 |
| ROPs | 32 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 8 KB (per CU) | 48 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 2 MB |
| SM Count | 10 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 25.60 GPixel/s | 109.4 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 70.40 GTexel/s | 136.7 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.253 TFLOPS | 4.375 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 563.2 GFLOPS | 136.7 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 68.36 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Cayman | GP104 |
| GPU Variant | Cayman PRO(215-0807019) | GP104-150-KA-A1 |
| Architecture | TeraScale 3 | Pascal |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 40 nm | 16 nm |
| Transistors | 2.64 billion | 7.2 billion |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | 314 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 200W | 120W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | 300 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 6.4 |
| CUDA | 6.1 | |