AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +255%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Jul 2016

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

768

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

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 + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP106

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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