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AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date May 2013 Dec 2016
Generation Solar System GeForce 10
Type Mobile 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 1708 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 192bit
Bandwidth 88.00GB/s 192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 12
Shading Units 768 1152
TMUs 48 72
ROPs 16 48
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 256 KB 1536 KB
SM Count 9
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 17.20 GPixel/s 81.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 51.60 GTexel/s 123.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.651 TFLOPS 3.935 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 103.2 GFLOPS 123.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 61.49 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Saturn GP104
GPU Variant Saturn XT GP104-140-KA-A1
Architecture GCN 2.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 16 nm
Transistors 2.08 billion 7.2 billion
Die Size 160 mm² 314 mm²
Board Design
TDP 100W 120W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU 300 W
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 6.3 6.4
CUDA 6.1