NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +780%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

RV670

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 XTX (215-0708004)

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

110W

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

1x 6-pin

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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