GeForce GT 630 vs Radeon HD 6870 X2
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630 |
| 235 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6870 X2 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870 X2 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6870 X2
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 630 | | Radeon HD 6870 X2 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF108 (GF108-400-A1) | vs | Barts (Barts XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 116 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 585 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 96 | vs | 1120 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 810 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 630 | | Radeon HD 6870 X2 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 630 | | Radeon HD 6870 X2 | |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | vs | 300 watts |
| Release Date | 15 May 2012 | vs | 8 Jul 2011 |
GeForce GT 630
3.24 GP/s
Radeon HD 6870 X2
57.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 630
13.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 6870 X2
100.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 630
28.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 6870 X2
268.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 630
311.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6870 X2
4032.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better