NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 115% (1670MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +330%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Venus

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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