NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +220%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2012

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

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

768

72

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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