AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA GeForce 210 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 210 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1104 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 210 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +5069%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce 210 Rev. 2

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce 210 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Oct 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1120

Shading Units

16

56

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.160 GTexel/s

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

31W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GT218

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

GT218-325-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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