AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 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

Lower TDP (175W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

4544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB +699%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

1600

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA104

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GA104-401-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

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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