Radeon HD 6870 vs GeForce GTX 960

Radeon HD 6870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6870
GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6870
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    228%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon HD 6870
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    261%

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960

161% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960

The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6870GeForce GTX 960
GPU NameBarts (Barts XT)vsGM206 (GM206-300-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size255 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders1120vs1024
Compute Units14vs8
Core clock900 MHzvs1127 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs56vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6870GeForce GTX 960
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6870GeForce GTX 960
TDP151 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2010vs22 Jan 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6870
    28.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    36.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6870
    50.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    72.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6870
    134.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    112.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6870
    2016.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960
    2308.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6870
    4540
  • GeForce GTX 960
    10380

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 6870
    18
  • GeForce GTX 960
    47

FPS (higher is better)