Radeon HD 6870 vs GeForce GTX 750

Radeon HD 6870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6870
GeForce GTX 750
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 750

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6870
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    106%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon HD 6870
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    130%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 750

30% higher gaming performance.
96 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)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 750

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 750

The GeForce GTX 750 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (5 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6870GeForce GTX 750
GPU NameBarts (Barts XT)vsGM107 (GM107-300-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size255 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders1120vs512
Compute Units14vs4
Core clock900 MHzvs1020 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs56vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6870GeForce GTX 750
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6870GeForce GTX 750
TDP151 wattsvs55 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2010vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6870
    28.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 750
    16.32 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6870
    50.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 750
    32.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6870
    134.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 750
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6870
    2016.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 750
    1044.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6870
    4540
  • GeForce GTX 750
    4830

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • Radeon HD 6870
    23
  • GeForce GTX 750
    32

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • Radeon HD 6870
    29
  • GeForce GTX 750
    41

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 6870
    17
  • GeForce GTX 750
    21

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • Radeon HD 6870
    25
  • GeForce GTX 750
    32

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 6870
    18
  • GeForce GTX 750
    22

FPS (higher is better)