AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM 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 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1008 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +455%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jul 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

1100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1120

Shading Units

112

56

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

G92B

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

260 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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