NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2016
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 10
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
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Boost Clock
1708 MHz
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Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
9
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Shading Units
1152
768
TMUs
72
48
ROPs
48
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
256 KB
Compute Units
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12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Saturn
GPU Variant
GP106-300-A1
Saturn XT
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
100W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,863
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,771
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OctaneBench
76
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
29
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
44
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Blender
188
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.