AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

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

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +95%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Aug 2016

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

1708 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

9

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

1152

56

TMUs

72

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

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GP106

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

120W

700 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

-

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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