GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 7870

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7870, which comes with core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon HD 7870		172 Sol/s
	Difference: 139 (81%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon HD 7870		6230 points
	Difference: 6129 (98%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon HD 7870		175 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon HD 7870 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7870		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 43008 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a lot (about 51%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7870. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7870		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40480 (51%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be a lot (more or less 126%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7870, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40288 (126%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.