NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX 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

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +819%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

240W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

R600

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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