GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon HD 4870
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1709MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
+264%
4375
Radeon HD 4870
1200
Graphics Card
Jul 2016
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 10
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1709 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
800
80
TMUs
40
48
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
82.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
68.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.375 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
RV770
GP106-400-A1
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
(215-0669049)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.1