NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2016
Jan 2013
Generation
GeForce 10
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
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Boost Clock
1708 MHz
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Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
9
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Shading Units
1152
1280
TMUs
72
80
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
80.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
2.560 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
160.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
GP104-140-KA-A1
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
175W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,863
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,771
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.