NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2016
Oct 2010
Generation
GeForce 10
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1050 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
134.4GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
9
-
Shading Units
1152
1120
TMUs
72
56
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
14

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP104
Barts
GPU Variant
GP104-140-KA-A1
Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture
Pascal
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
40 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
255 mm²

Board Design

TDP
120W
151W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
5.0

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
3,863
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,771
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