AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 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 and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)

1072 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +1300%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Dec 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.02GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1120

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G94B

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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