AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1709MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +31%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2018

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

10

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP104

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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