AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA A2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 16GB VRAM A2 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

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (60W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

A2 +66%

4.531 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Nov 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA107

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

Unknown

334 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

175W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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