ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 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 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

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

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +780%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2018

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

1709 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.06GB/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

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 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

GP104

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

314 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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