NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD FirePro V5900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AMD FirePro V5900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +612%

4.375 TFLOPS

FirePro V5900

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

FirePro V5900

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

FirePro

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

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Cayman

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman LE WS

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

389 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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