NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2016
Aug 2012
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
1709 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
1440
TMUs
80
72
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
18
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP106
Cypress
GPU Variant
GP106-400-A1
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Architecture
Pascal
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
151W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 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
6.8
5.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
4,203
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,917
—
Battlefield 5 1080p
74
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
9
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
32
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
50
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Battlefield 5 2160p
27
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Battlefield 5 1440p
50
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.