AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1709MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)