Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GP104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2012

October 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,842 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

88.80

136.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5X

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

8008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131