AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1630 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 96.00GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +10%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1630

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce GTX 1630

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jun 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1740 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

512

56

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.56 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.656 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

TU117

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

TU117-150-KA-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

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

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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