NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB NVIDIA · 2017-12
GPU AMD Radeon HD 6950 AMD · 2010-12
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2017
Dec 2010
Generation
GeForce 10
Northern Islands
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
1709 MHz
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Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
5GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
160bit
256bit
Bandwidth
160.2GB/s
160.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
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Shading Units
1280
1408
TMUs
80
88
ROPs
40
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1280 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
22
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
68.36 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
563.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Cayman
GPU Variant
GP106-350-K3-A1
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
Architecture
Pascal
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
200W
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-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
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Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Benchmark
Blender
332
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▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.