NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 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 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/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 8 GB GDDR5X +780%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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Radeon HD 3870 AGP

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

136.7 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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