ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 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 Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +819%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

320

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

240W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GP104

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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