NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra 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

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 2

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

230 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1600

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

Cypress

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Celsius

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

1.5

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

Shader Model

5.0

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