NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
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Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2017
Jan 2012
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Southern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1063 MHz
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Boost Clock
1480 MHz
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Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
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Shading Units
1280
1536
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
71.04 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.842 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Tahiti
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
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
80W
185W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.