AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 's Advantages

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

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +78%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

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

-

SM Count

3

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

384

56

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

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

Board Design

151W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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