NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 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 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

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

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +46%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

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

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 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

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

314 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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