AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 91% (1480MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +281%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jun 2017

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GP106

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.4

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