NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (20W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +90%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1152 MHz

Base Clock

-

1379 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

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

384

Shading Units

1120

24

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Barts

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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