AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 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 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +649%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jul 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

112

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G92B

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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