AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2550MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (736.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

9120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +2490%

52.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2024

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2295 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2550 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1438 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

736.3GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

80

1120

Shading Units

10240

56

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

285.6 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

816.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

52.22 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

52.22 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

816.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

320W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

AD103

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

AD103-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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