NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 3850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

ATI Radeon HD 3850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 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 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 53.12GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +819%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon HD 3850

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

53.12GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

320

72

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

RV670

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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