NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2016
Nov 2009
Generation
GeForce 10
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
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Boost Clock
1708 MHz
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Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
9
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Shading Units
1152
1600
TMUs
72
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
81.98 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Hemlock
GPU Variant
GP106-300-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
120W
294W
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,863
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,771
—
OctaneBench
76
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
29
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
44
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Blender
188
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.