NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 's Advantages

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

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +52%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Mar 2013

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

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP106-400-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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