AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2012
Jul 2016
Generation
London
GeForce 10
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
2002 MHz
Base Clock
-
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1709 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
-
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
68.36 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Wimbledon
GP106
GPU Variant
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
GP106-400-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
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
6.8
CUDA
-
6.1
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
4,203
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,917
Battlefield 5 1080p
-
74
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
50
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
27
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
50