NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon E8870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon E8870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)

• Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
• Around 51% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1000 MHz
• 2.8x more texture fill rate: 133.6 GTexel / s vs 48 GTexel / s
• Around 67% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 768
• 2.8x better floating-point performance: 4,275 gflops vs 1,536 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
• Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 6000 MHz
• 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8161 vs 3368
• 3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 111.55 vs 36.948
• Around 57% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1371.266 vs 874.689
• 7.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 8.49 vs 1.11
• 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12645 vs 4620
• 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12645 vs 4620

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8870

• Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 120 Watt
• Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 708 vs 444
• Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5030 vs 3654
• 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 18191 vs 3359
• Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5030 vs 3654
• 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 18191 vs 3359

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon E8870

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	8161 3368
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	444 708
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	111.55 36.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1371.266 874.689
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8.49 1.11
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12645 4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3654 5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3359 18191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12645 4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3654 5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3359 18191

Compare specifications (specs)