AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs Intel Arctic Sound 2T
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2010
Jan 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
Xe Graphics
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
1229GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
-
Shading Units
1120
7680
TMUs
56
240
ROPs
32
120
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
108.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
216.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
13.82 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
27.65 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
3.456 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
Arctic Sound
GPU Variant
Barts XT(215-0798000)
-
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Generation 12.5
Foundry
TSMC
Intel
Process Size
40 nm
10 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
8 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
190 mm²
Board Design
TDP
151W
500W
Suggested PSU
450 W
900 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
6.5