AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Pitcairn GP106
GPU variant Pitcairn XT (215-0828047) N17E-G1-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 16 nm
Number of transistors 2,800 million 4,400 million
Die size 212 mm² 200 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 5th, 2012
Generation Southern Islands
Production End-of-life
Launch price 349 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 95 in our database
Predecessor Northern Islands
Successor Sea Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 1000 MHz
Memory clock 1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective
Base clock 1063 MHz
Boost clock 1480 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 6 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 192.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1280 1280
TMUs 80 80
ROPs 32 48
Compute units 20
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 512 KB 1536 KB
SM count 10

Performance

Pixel rate 32.00 GPixel/s 71.04 GPixel/s
Texture rate 80.00 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.560 TFLOPS 3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 160.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 118.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (half) performance 59.20 GFLOPS (1:64)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches
TDP 175 W 80 W
Suggested PSU 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 2x 6-pin None
Board number C401-47 E2914 SKU 30

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 5.1 6.4
CUDA 6.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jun 27th, 2017
Generation GeForce 10 Mobile
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 117 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 900M
Successor GeForce 20 Mobile

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