AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation 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 250W)

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2550MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

11200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +2300%

65.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Aug 2023

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1155 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2550 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

100

1600

Shading Units

12800

80

TMUs

400

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

400

-

RT Cores

100

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

448.8 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1020 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

65.28 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

65.28 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1020 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

AD102

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

AD102

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

609 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

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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