Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
May 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1341 - 1480 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
1063 - 1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
60 - 70 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6.144 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
VR Ready
-
+