NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +227%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

800

72

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

123.0 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

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

RV770

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

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

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