AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +109%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Dec 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1440

Shading Units

1280

72

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

40

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GP106

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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