AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1708MHz vs 1050MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +9%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

9

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1152

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP106

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GP106-300-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

Board Design

300W

TDP

120W

700 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 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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