NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7790

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7790 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 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

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

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +119%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7790

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7790

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

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

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

896

72

TMUs

56

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

16.00 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

85W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Bonaire

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

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

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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