NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 188W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +60%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

1280

Shading Units

1600

80

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Cypress

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

188W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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