Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jul 2011 Mar 2014
Generation Northern Islands GeForce 800M
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1050 MHz 1250 MHz
Base Clock 941 MHz
Boost Clock 967 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 192bit
Bandwidth 134.4GB/s 120.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 14
Shading Units 1120 1344
TMUs 56 112
ROPs 32 24
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache 512 KB 384 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 28.80 GPixel/s 27.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 50.40 GTexel/s 108.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.016 TFLOPS 2.599 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 108.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Barts GK104
GPU Variant Barts XT(215-0798000) N15E-GT-A2
Architecture TeraScale 2 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1.7 billion 3.54 billion
Die Size 255 mm² 294 mm²
Board Design
TDP 300W 100W
Suggested PSU 700 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 No outputs
Power Connectors None
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan N/A 1.1
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 3.0