GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 8 years late
Boost Clock1380MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Lower TDP (20W vs 175W)
Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
706
Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
+285%
2720
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Jan 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1380 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
1600
16
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
16 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
22.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
706.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
29.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
175W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Cypress
GP108-200-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.0