NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +264%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1280

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

RV770

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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