Radeon HD 7950 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7950
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2012
June 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
1480 MHz
Compute units
28
-
Core clock speed
-
1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,867 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
89.60
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
-
Eyefinity
1
-
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
+
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-