Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGP106Tahiti
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date27 June 2017 (7 years ago)31 January 2012 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12801536
Core clock speed1265 MHz925 MHz
Boost clock speed1480 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,400 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt185 Watt
Texture fill rate118.488.80
Floating-point processing powerno data2.842 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs8096

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB3 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed8008 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.2 GB/s240.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12.012 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 June 2017 31 January 2012
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 185 Watt

GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB has an age advantage of 5 years, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 131.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB is a notebook card while Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
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