ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +60%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Apr 2017

Evergreen

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

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

2257 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

216.7GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1600

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GP106

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GP106-410-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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