AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2012
Unknown
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1001 MHz
Base Clock
-
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1709 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
256.3GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
1280
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
10

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
109.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
68.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GP104
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
314 mm²

Board Design

TDP
250W
120W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.4
CUDA
-
6.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
2,310
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
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