NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 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 9 years late

Boost Clock1480MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +797%

3.789 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

-

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

M88

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

55W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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