AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada 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 300W)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2505MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

17056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada +4416%

91.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

RTX 6000 Ada

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Dec 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

142

1120

Shading Units

18176

56

TMUs

568

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

568

-

RT Cores

142

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

96 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

481.0 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1423 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

91.06 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.06 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1423 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

AD102

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

AD102

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

609 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

6.8

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