NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +45%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

1536

72

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Antilles

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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