Radeon E8950 and GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB - video card comparison

Radeon E8950

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Architecture

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Amethyst

GP106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2015

December 2017

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

1709 MHz

Core clock speed

735 MHz

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,096 gflops

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

5,000 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

95 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

128.0

136.7

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

5 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

160 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

8008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

160.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131