GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon HD 6870

GeForce GTX 295
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 295
Radeon HD 6870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6870

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 295
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6870
    102%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 295

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870

138 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 295 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 295Radeon HD 6870
GPU NameGT200B (G200-400-B3)vsBarts (Barts XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size470 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders240vs1120
Compute Units10vs14
Core clock576 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs28vs32
TMUs80vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 295Radeon HD 6870
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width448 bit x2vs256 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 295Radeon HD 6870
TDP289 wattsvs151 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2009vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 295
    32.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 295
    92.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 295
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 295
    1192.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6870
    2016.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 295
    4440
  • Radeon HD 6870
    4540

Points (higher is better)