GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and Radeon 9700 PRO - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
Radeon 9700 PRO
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
GP106
R300
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
July 2002
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
Floppy
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
325 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
110 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
-
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
136.7
2.600
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
9028 MHz
620 MHz
Memory bandwidth
216.7 GB/s
19.84 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
9.0 (9_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A