AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +70%

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Mar 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP104

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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