GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon HD 2950 PRO - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

GP106

RV670

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2016

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

600 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

666 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

320

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

9.600

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

1200 MBps

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

38.4 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)

10.1 (10_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.3 (full) Shader Model6.44.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

VR Ready