AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2010
Jun 2016
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
2002 MHz
Base Clock
—
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1683 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
—
Shading Units
1120
1920
TMUs
56
120
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
—
15
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
107.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
101.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
—
202.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
GP104
GPU Variant
Barts XT(215-0798000)
GP104-200-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
16 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
151W
150W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
CUDA
—
6.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
6,078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
2,825
GTA 5 2160p
—
48
GTA 5 1440p
—
84
GTA 5 1080p
—
148
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.