NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 188W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +60%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1600

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

188W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Cypress

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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