AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 +137%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jun 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

1600

Shading Units

1920

80

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GP104

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

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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