Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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

June 2012

June 2017

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1050 MHz

1480 MHz

Core clock speed

1265 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,301 gflops

3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

134.4

118.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1500 MHz

8008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

Eyefinity

HDMI

DisplayPort support

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12.0

CUDA

6.1

Mantle

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

5.1

5.0

AppAcceleration

CrossFire

Enduro

FreeSync

HD3D

PowerTune

TrueAudio

ZeroCore