AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +61%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jul 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

1709 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

120W

750 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

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

GP106

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

389 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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