AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Unknown
Jan 2018
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2002 MHz
Base Clock
—
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1709 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
—
Shading Units
1536
1280
TMUs
96
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
—
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
68.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
—
136.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Antilles
GP106
GPU Variant
Antilles XT(215-0807027)
GP106-400-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
375W
120W
Suggested PSU
750 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
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
CUDA
—
6.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.