Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIAGPU

GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 1506 MHz – 1708 MHz · 120W Change

AMDGPU

GPU AMD Radeon HD 7850 130W Change

Verdict

Performance

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 leads in 2 of 2 benchmarks

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 AMD Radeon HD 7850 Δ

3DMark Time Spy 3,863 1,334 +190%

3DMark Time Spy Extreme 1,771 325 +445%

Specs Compare

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104	AMD Radeon HD 7850
Graphics Card
Release Date	Dec 2016	Mar 2012
Generation	GeForce 10	Southern Islands
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock	1506 MHz
Boost Clock	1708 MHz
Memory Clock	2002 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size	3GB	2GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory Bus	192bit	256bit
Bandwidth	192.2GB/s	153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count	9
Shading Units	1152	1024
TMUs	72	64
ROPs	48	32
L1 Cache	48 KB (per SM)	16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache	1536 KB	512 KB
Compute Units		16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate	81.98 GPixel/s	27.52 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	123.0 GTexel/s	55.04 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)	61.49 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)	3.935 TFLOPS	1.761 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)	123.0 GFLOPS	110.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name	GP104	Pitcairn
GPU Variant	GP104-140-KA-A1	Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 1.0
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC
Process Size	16 nm	28 nm
Transistors	7.2 billion	2.8 billion
Die Size	314 mm²	212 mm²
Board Design
TDP	120W	130W
Suggested PSU	300 W	300 W
Outputs	1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.2
CUDA	6.1
Shader Model	6.4	5.1

Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

3863

1334

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

1771

325

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 AMD Radeon HD 7850