GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GP106
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
743 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
320
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
215 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
11.89
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
106.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
VR Ready
+
-