NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +53%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

1280

72

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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