AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jun 2012

Aug 2016

Generation

Southern Islands

GeForce 10

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1506 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1708 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

3GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384bit

192bit

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

192.2GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

1152

TMUs

128

72

ROPs

32

48

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

1536 KB

SM Count

-

9

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

81.98 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

61.49 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP106

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)

GP106-300-A1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Pascal

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

16 nm

Transistors

4.313 billion

4.4 billion

Die Size

352 mm²

200 mm²

Board Design

TDP

300W

120W

Suggested PSU

700 W

300 W

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

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

-

3,863

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

-

1,771

OctaneBench

-

76

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

-

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

-

29

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

-

44

Blender

-

188