NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

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

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +141%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

-

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

384

Shading Units

1600

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Cypress

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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