NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 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 GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1582MHz

More VRAM (11GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +462%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481 MHz

Base Clock

-

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

256bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1120

224

TMUs

56

88

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

0 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

Barts

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

471 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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