NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2018
Oct 2010
Generation
GeForce 10
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
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Boost Clock
1708 MHz
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Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
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Shading Units
1280
960
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.6 GTexel/s
37.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.32 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
4.372 TFLOPS
1488 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.6 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
Barts
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture
Pascal
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
40 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
127W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.