GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 6870
Summary
Reasons to consider 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 Radeon HD 6870 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-310-A1) | vs | Barts (Barts XT) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,800 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 1120 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 1152 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR4 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective | vs | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| TDP | 20 watts | vs | 151 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2018 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
22.06 GP/s
Radeon HD 6870
28.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
33.10 GT/s
Radeon HD 6870
50.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
16.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 6870
134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6870
2016.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better