AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 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 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/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 8 GB GDDR5X +60%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Unknown

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

1001 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 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

GP104

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

314 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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