GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon HD 7970 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GP106
New Zealand
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
August 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
3x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
500 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.2.131