NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 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 RTX 3070 Ti GA102 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

5024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (290W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 +978%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

1120

192

TMUs

56

96

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Barts

GA102-150-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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