NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +60%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jun 2010

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

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/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

228W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Cypress

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

314 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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