GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon HD 6790
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1708MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+192%
3935
Radeon HD 6790
1344
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 10
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
9
SM Count
-
1152
Shading Units
800
72
TMUs
40
48
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.44 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1344 GFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
Barts
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
Barts LE
(215-0798002)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
255 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0