AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1380MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (20W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +185%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

0.706 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1152 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1380 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1120

Shading Units

256

56

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.04 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.08 GTexel/s

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

706.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

29.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

20W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GP108

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

GP108-200-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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