Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2010 | Sep 2021 |
| Generation | Northern Islands | Mining GPUs |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1050 MHz | 1458 MHz |
| Base Clock | 1140 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1410 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 1024MB | 16GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | HBM2e |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 4096bit |
| Bandwidth | 134.4GB/s | 1493GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 14 | |
| Shading Units | 1120 | 4480 |
| TMUs | 56 | 280 |
| ROPs | 32 | 128 |
| L1 Cache | 8 KB (per CU) | 192 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 8 MB |
| SM Count | 70 | |
| Tensor Cores | 280 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 28.80 GPixel/s | 180.5 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 50.40 GTexel/s | 394.8 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.016 TFLOPS | 12.63 TFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 50.53 TFLOPS | |
| FP64 (double) | 6.317 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Barts | GA100 |
| GPU Variant | Barts XT(215-0798000) | GA100-105F-A1 |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 | Ampere |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 40 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistors | 1.7 billion | 54.2 billion |
| Die Size | 255 mm² | 826 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 151W | 250W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 2x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | N/A |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | N/A |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | N/A |
| CUDA | 8.0 | |