AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1709MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +46%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Jul 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP106

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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