AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jan 2013

Aug 2016

Generation

Northern Islands

GeForce 10

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

2002 MHz

Base Clock

-

1506 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1708 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

1024MB

3GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

192bit

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

192.2GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1600

1152

TMUs

80

72

ROPs

32

48

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

1536 KB

SM Count

-

9

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

81.98 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

61.49 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

Cypress

GP106

GPU Variant

Cypress XT(215-0735033)

GP106-300-A1

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Pascal

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

40 nm

16 nm

Transistors

2.154 billion

4.4 billion

Die Size

334 mm²

200 mm²

Board Design

TDP

175W

120W

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

CUDA

-

6.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy

-

3,863

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

-

1,771

OctaneBench

-

76

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

-

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

-

29

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

-

44

Blender

-

188