ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +797%

3.789 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2017

M8x

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1063 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

320

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GP106

-

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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