AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon HD 7850 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +123%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Dec 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

1708 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

9

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1152

64

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

120W

300 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

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

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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