AMD Radeon HD 7790 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon HD 7790 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7790 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7790

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +144%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7790

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jan 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GP106

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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