AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 350

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition AMD Radeon R7 350

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 350 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 350 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (55W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +232%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 350

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

Radeon R7 350

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jul 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

8

1600

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO MOCHA

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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