AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +169%

5.437 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Feb 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

1536

56

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.96 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

169.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.87 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.437 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

169.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

TU116

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

TU116-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

2

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

3

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

4

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD FireStream 9350

5

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP

6

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA TITAN Ada

7

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

8

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

9

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200

10

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

Related News

1

Apple's 2025 OS in Development: iOS 19 Codename 'Luck'

2

Apple's AI is Memory Hungry! The Entire iPhone 16 Lineup Comes with 8GB RAM

3

Noctua Announce NH-D15 G2 Air Cooler and NF-A14x25r G2 Fan

4

The P-Cores and E-Cores in Arrow Lake Will Be Interleaved, Reducing Core Communication Latency and Improving Heat Dissipation

5

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

6

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

7

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

8

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

9

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

10

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2