GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon HD 6850 X2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon HD 6850 X2
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
9876
Radeon HD 6850 X2
2610
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon HD 6850 X2
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GP106
Barts
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
September 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
2x 1,536.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
960
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
254 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
38.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
4200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
134.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A