AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +78%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

May 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1228 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1120

Shading Units

384

56

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

30W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GP108

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

GP108-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

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

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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