Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Dec 2017 May 2022
Generation GeForce 10 Navi II
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1506 MHz 1860 MHz
Boost Clock 1709 MHz 2310 MHz
Memory Clock 2002 MHz 2250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 5GB 16GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 160bit 256bit
Bandwidth 160.2GB/s 576.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 10
Shading Units 1280 5120
TMUs 80 320
ROPs 40 128
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SM) 128 KB per Array
L2 Cache 1280 KB 4 MB
Compute Units 80
RT Cores 80
L3 Cache 128 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 68.36 GPixel/s 295.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 136.7 GTexel/s 739.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 68.36 GFLOPS 47.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 4.375 TFLOPS 23.65 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 136.7 GFLOPS 1478 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GP106 Navi 21
GPU Variant GP106-350-K3-A1 Navi 21 KXTX(215-121000289)
Architecture Pascal RDNA 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 16 nm 7 nm
Transistors 4.4 billion 26.8 billion
Die Size 200 mm² 520 mm²
Board Design
TDP 120W 335W
Suggested PSU 300 W 700 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 6.1
Shader Model 6.4 6.5