AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition AMD Radeon Pro V520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 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 225W)

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520 +171%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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Radeon Pro V520

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Dec 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

36

1600

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.75 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.373 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

460.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Navi 12

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Navi 12

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

Unknown

334 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

175W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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