GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs Radeon HD 7870 XT
Summary
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
164%
Radeon HD 7870 XT
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile |
| 105 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7870 XT . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 64% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870 XT |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
The GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP106 (N17E-G1-A1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti LE) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,400 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 24 |
| Core clock | 1404 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 96 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| TDP | 80 watts | vs | 185 watts |
| Release Date | 15 Aug 2016 | vs | 19 Nov 2012 |
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
67.40 GP/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
112.30 GT/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
88.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
192.20 GB/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
192.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
3594.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7870 XT
2842.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
14100
Radeon HD 7870 XT
8590
Points (higher is better)