AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +911%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

GeForce GT 430

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF108

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GF108-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

49W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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