NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 GRE 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 260W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (2245MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +950%

45.98 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jul 2023

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1287 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2245 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

1280

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

320

48

ROPs

160

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

359.2 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

718.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

91.96 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.98 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1437 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 31

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XL

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

260W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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