Radeon HD 6930 and GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6930
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Cayman
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2011
December 2017
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
750 MHz
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,920.0 gflops
4,375 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
186 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
60.00
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
5 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
160 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
160.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131