AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2012
Apr 2017
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2257 MHz
Base Clock
-
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1709 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
216.7GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
1280
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
-
10

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
89.60 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.867 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.8 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
68.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GP106
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
GP106-410-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
200 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
120W
Suggested PSU
550 W
300 W
Outputs
1x 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
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
-
6.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
1,969
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1,019
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