NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 X2 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 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 63.68GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +293%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R700

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

995 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

63.68GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

800

72

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

4x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

R700

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

R700 PRO (215-0669065)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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