NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +148%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +197%

3909

Radeon HD 7850

1312

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Mar 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

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 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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