NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 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

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +60%

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/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

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 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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