NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +184%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

48

40

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

254W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Barts

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

255 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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