GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon HD 6970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon HD 6970
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GP106
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
December 2010
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
880 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
2,703.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
550 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
84.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
6.1
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-