GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1709MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
+819%
4375
Radeon HD 2900 XT
476
Graphics Card
Jul 2016
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 10
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1709 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
828 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
512bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
106.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
320
80
TMUs
16
48
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
82.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.89 GPixel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.89 GTexel/s
68.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.375 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
475.5 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
215W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
R600
GP106-400-A1
GPU Variant
R600 XT
(215RGMDKA13FG)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.0