NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 302W)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +109%

4.375 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

18

1280

Shading Units

1440

80

TMUs

72

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

23.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Hemlock

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

302W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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