AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA CMP 90HX

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA CMP 90HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 10GB VRAM CMP 90HX 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

Lower TDP (175W vs 320W)

NVIDIA CMP 90HX 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

4800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

CMP 90HX +704%

21.89 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

CMP 90HX

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jul 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

50

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

6400

80

TMUs

200

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

200

-

RT Cores

50

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

136.8 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

342.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.89 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.89 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

342.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA102

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GA102-100-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

320W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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