AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Jul 2016
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
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
-
1709 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
1280
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
-
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
82.03 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
New Zealand
GP106
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
200 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GP106-400-A1
Board Design
TDP
500W
120W
Suggested PSU
900 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
-
6.1
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
4,203
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,917
Battlefield 5 1080p
-
74
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
50
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
27
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
50