NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

AMD Radeon HD 6870

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 +78%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

-

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

1120

24

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

151W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x 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

Barts

GP108-300-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

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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