NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2017
Nov 2009
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Evergreen
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1063 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1480 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
-
Shading Units
1280
1600
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
71.04 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Hemlock
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Architecture
Pascal
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
294W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
5.0