GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon HD 7950 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon HD 7950
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
Radeon HD 7950
4907
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon HD 7950
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GP106
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
January 2012
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1250 MHz
Compute units
-
28
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
89.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
240 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
6
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
6.1
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
+
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
+