NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +819%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

1152

Shading Units

320

72

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

RV670

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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