NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1708MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +18%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

1792

72

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

-

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

103.6 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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

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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