NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 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 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 120W)

Score

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 7 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

-

72

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

108W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G70

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

110 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.302 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

333 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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