NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2017
Jan 2013
Generation
GeForce 10
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
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Boost Clock
1709 MHz
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Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
5GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
160bit
384bit
Bandwidth
160.2GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
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Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
40
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1280 KB
768 KB
Compute Units
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32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
68.36 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GP106-350-K3-A1
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
250W
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Benchmark
Blender
332
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.