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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2012 Aug 2016
Generation Southern Islands GeForce 10 Mobile
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 2002 MHz
Base Clock 1404 MHz
Boost Clock 1670 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 6GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
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 80.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 80.00 GTexel/s 133.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.560 TFLOPS 4.275 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 160.0 GFLOPS 133.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 66.80 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn GP106
GPU Variant Pitcairn XT(215-0828047) N17E-G1-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 16 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 4.4 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 200 mm²
Board Design
TDP 175W 80W
Suggested PSU 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin None
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