Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Cayman
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
December 2016
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
1708 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1152
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
123.0
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-