NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +779%

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

VS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

106W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

RV670

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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