AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Nov 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
—
562 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1600
3328
TMUs
80
104
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
SM Count
—
26
Tensor Cores
—
104
RT Cores
—
26
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
7.987 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
GA106
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
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Architecture
TeraScale 2
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
12 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
70W
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
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
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
5,834
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
2,681
OctaneBench
—
227
Blender
—
1,885
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.