AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
Oct 2018
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1001 MHz
Base Clock
-
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1709 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
-
10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
68.36 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GP104
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
120W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
-
6.1