AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 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 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

6080 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +1373%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2023

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

60

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

7680

80

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

AD104

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

285W

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 16-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

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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