NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1709MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +46%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

40

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

185W

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

GP106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

352 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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