NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon Sky 900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1709MHz vs 950MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +28%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon Sky 900

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Orthrus

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

314 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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