Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Aug 2012 | Dec 2017 |
| Generation | Southern Islands | GeForce 10 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 2002 MHz |
| Base Clock | 1506 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1709 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 5GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 160bit |
| Bandwidth | 264.0GB/s | 160.2GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 128 | 80 |
| ROPs | 32 | 40 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 48 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 1280 KB |
| SM Count | 10 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.60 GPixel/s | 68.36 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 118.4 GTexel/s | 136.7 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.789 TFLOPS | 4.375 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 947.2 GFLOPS | 136.7 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 68.36 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | New Zealand | GP106 |
| 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 |
| GPU Variant | GP106-350-K3-A1 | |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 500W | 120W |
| Suggested PSU | 900 W | 300 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 3x 8-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 | |