AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti GP106
GPU variant Tahiti XT (215-0821060) N17E-G1-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 16 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 4,400 million
Die size 352 mm² 200 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 22nd, 2011
Generation Southern Islands
Production End-of-life
Launch price 549 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 191 in our database
gpu.details.availability Jan 9th, 2012
Predecessor Northern Islands
Successor Sea Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 925 MHz
Memory clock 1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective
Base clock 1063 MHz
Boost clock 1480 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 6 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 264.0 GB/s 192.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2048 1280
TMUs 128 80
ROPs 32 48
Compute units 32
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 768 KB 1536 KB
SM count 10

Performance

Pixel rate 29.60 GPixel/s 71.04 GPixel/s
Texture rate 118.4 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.789 TFLOPS 3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 947.2 GFLOPS (1:4) 118.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (half) performance 59.20 GFLOPS (1:64)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches
TDP 250 W 80 W
Suggested PSU 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Board number C386-37 E2914 SKU 30

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 5.1 6.4
CUDA 6.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jun 27th, 2017
Generation GeForce 10 Mobile
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 117 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 900M
Successor GeForce 20 Mobile

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