AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1072 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (58W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +1300%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce GT 220

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1120

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

58W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G94

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

240 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

2

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

3

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

4

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

5

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

6

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

7

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon HD 7510 OEM

8

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

9

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

10

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

Related News

1

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

2

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

3

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

4

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

5

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

6

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

7

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

8

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

9

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

10

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market