GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon HD 6970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon HD 6970M
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GP106
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
July 2016
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
960
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
75-100 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
VR Ready
+
-