AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6850

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 1024GB)

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

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +194%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

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

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

960

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

40

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GP106

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

255 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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