GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GP106
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
320
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
12.43
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
VR Ready
+
-