Radeon HD 7950 Boost and GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,315 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
103.6
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
240.0 GB/s
256.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3