AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

6048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +1659%

35.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

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

1980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

1120

Shading Units

7168

56

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

56

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

198.0 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

554.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

35.48 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.48 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

554.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

220W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

AD104

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

AD104-350-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

294 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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