NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +3%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1152

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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