AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 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 GDDR5X '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 GDDR5X
+61%
4.375 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Oct 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
1709 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
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
GP104
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
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
