AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +250%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2017

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1063 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

800

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

GP106

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

166 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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