GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GP106
Neptune CF
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
May 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,935 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
123.0
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
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Memory bus width
192 Bit
2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
6.4
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Vulkan
+
-