NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +19%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

1024

Shading Units

1120

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

151W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Barts

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

228 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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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