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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2018 Jun 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 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1708 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Clock 2002 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 6GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 192bit 384bit
Bandwidth 192.2GB/s 288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 10
Shading Units 1280 2048
TMUs 80 128
ROPs 48 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1536 KB 768 KB
Compute Units 32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 81.98 GPixel/s 33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 136.6 GTexel/s 134.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 68.32 GFLOPS
FP32 (float) 4.372 TFLOPS 4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 136.6 GFLOPS 1075 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GP104 Tahiti
GPU Variant GP104-150-KA-A1 Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7.2 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 314 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 120W 300W
Suggested PSU 300 W 700 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 + 1x 8-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