Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA A10 PCIe

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2010 Apr 2021
Generation Northern Islands Tesla
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1050 MHz 1563 MHz
Base Clock 885 MHz
Boost Clock 1695 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 24GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 134.4GB/s 600.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 14
Shading Units 1120 9216
TMUs 56 288
ROPs 32 96
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 6 MB
SM Count 72
Tensor Cores 288
RT Cores 72
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 28.80 GPixel/s 162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 50.40 GTexel/s 488.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.016 TFLOPS 31.24 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 31.24 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 976.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Barts GA102
GPU Variant Barts XT(215-0798000) GA102-890-A1
Architecture TeraScale 2 Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 40 nm 8 nm
Transistors 1.7 billion 28.3 billion
Die Size 255 mm² 628 mm²
Board Design
TDP 151W 150W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan N/A 1.3
Shader Model 5.0 6.6
CUDA 8.6