NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD FirePro W5100

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB AMD FirePro W5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +175%

3.935 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

FirePro

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

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1152

Shading Units

768

72

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Bonaire

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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