Graphics card comparison
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 6870
Nvidia
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2048 Mb DDR4
Released 12 Mar 2018
DESKTOP
VS
AMD
Radeon HD 6870
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 21 Oct 2010
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
- 131 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6870 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 6870
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | Radeon HD 6870 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-310-A1) | Barts (Barts XT) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,800 million | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 384 | 1120 |
| Compute Units | 3 | 14 |
| Core clock | 1152 MHz | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 32 |
| TMUs | 24 | 56 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | Radeon HD 6870 |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR4 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | Radeon HD 6870 |
|---|
| TDP | 20 watts | 151 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2018 | 21 Oct 2010 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR422.06 GP/s
- Radeon HD 687028.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR433.10 GT/s
- Radeon HD 687050.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR416.80 GB/s
- Radeon HD 6870134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR41059.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 68702016.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better