AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6990

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 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 6990 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +71%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.0GB/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

26.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

79.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

637.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 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

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