AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A5000
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Apr 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
—
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
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1695 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1600
8192
TMUs
80
256
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
6 MB
SM Count
—
64
Tensor Cores
—
256
RT Cores
—
64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
GA102
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
28.3 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
230W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
6.7
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.