AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
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
20
—
Shading Units
1600
4480
TMUs
80
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
27.20 GPixel/s
180.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
394.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
12.63 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
6.317 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
50.53 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
GA100
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
GA100-105F-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.