ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

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

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +691%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2016

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

320

Shading Units

1152

16

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GP106

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

GP106-300-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 (full) 4.0 (partial)

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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