NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +194%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1280

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Barts

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

127W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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