NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +46%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

640

Shading Units

1600

40

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Cypress

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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