NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps AMD Radeon HD 6990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 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

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +71%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

Radeon HD 6990

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2011

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

-

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

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

26.56 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.68 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.550 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

637.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Antilles

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-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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