NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +225%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Apr 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

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Barts

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

314 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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