AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +60%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2018

Northern Islands

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

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GP106

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GP106-400-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

Board Design

175W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 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 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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