NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2016
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Solar System
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1404 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1670 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1375 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
88.00GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
10
-
Shading Units
1280
768
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
256 KB
Compute Units
-
12

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
80.16 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
133.6 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
66.80 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.275 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
133.6 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP106
Saturn
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
Saturn XT
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
160 mm²

Board Design

TDP
80W
100W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
-

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.3