AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Oct 2018
Generation
Solar System
GeForce 10
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
—
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
68.36 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GP104
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
—
6.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.