AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 OEM 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 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (58W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +2704%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220 OEM

0.097 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

GeForce GT 220 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1600

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.048 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.096 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

97.15 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

58W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GT215

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

2

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

3

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

4

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

5

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

6

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

7

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD FirePro W8100

8

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs ATI FireGL V7700

9

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 5300

10

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early