AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6930

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 186W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930

1.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +104%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Dec 2016

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

1708 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

1280

Shading Units

1152

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

186W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GP104

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

314 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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