AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 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 300W)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2505MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

16576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +3247%

91.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Dec 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

142

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

18176

80

TMUs

568

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

568

-

RT Cores

142

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

481.0 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1423 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

91.06 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.06 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1423 GFLOPS

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

4 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

608 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 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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