GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon HD 5850
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 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 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1709MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (120W vs 151W)
Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages
160 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
+109%
4375
Radeon HD 5850
2088
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
+672%
4203
Radeon HD 5850
544
Graphics Card
Jul 2016
Release Date
Sep 2009
GeForce 10
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1709 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
18
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
1440
80
TMUs
72
48
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
82.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
68.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.375 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
151W
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
Cypress
GP106-400-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO
(215-0735043)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
334 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
