NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (2150MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X +403%

22.02 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

430

Radeon Pro W6900X +364%

1998

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon Pro W6900X

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Aug 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2150 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

1280

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

320

48

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

275.2 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

688.0 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

44.03 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.02 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1376 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 21

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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