ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +227%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Aug 2016

Radeon R700

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

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

800

Shading Units

1152

40

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

286W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GP106

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

2

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

3

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

4

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

5

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

6

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

7

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 6300

8

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

9

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

10

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1

Related News

1

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

2

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

3

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

4

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

5

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

6

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

7

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster