NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +1039%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

R600

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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