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

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

4288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +646%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Sep 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

5888

80

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA104

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

220W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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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