GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon HD 6850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
9876
Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon HD 6850
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GP106
Barts
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
October 2010
Bus support
-
AGP
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
1,488.0 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
127 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
37.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
6.1
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-