AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1518MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +16%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

May 2018

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1392 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1518 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

84.10GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.43 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

36.43 GFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.332 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GP107

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GP107-301-K1-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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