ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

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ATI Radeon HD 5950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

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

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +109%

4.375 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2018

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

1280

72

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GP106

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

302W

TDP

120W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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