AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +94%

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Mar 2018

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1408

Shading Units

1280

88

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

120W

550 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 PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-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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