Radeon HD 6870 vs GeForce GTX 960
Summary
Radeon HD 6870
100%
GeForce GTX 960
228%
Relative performance
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
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).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6870 | | GeForce GTX 960 | |
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GPU Name | Barts (Barts XT) | vs | GM206 (GM206-300-A1) |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 255 mm² | vs | 228 mm² |
Transistors | 1,700 million | vs | 2,940 million |
Shaders | 1120 | vs | 1024 |
Compute Units | 14 | vs | 8 |
Core clock | 900 MHz | vs | 1127 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 56 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6870 | | GeForce GTX 960 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6870 | | GeForce GTX 960 | |
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TDP | 151 watts | vs | 120 watts |
Release Date | 21 Oct 2010 | vs | 22 Jan 2015 |
Radeon HD 6870
28.80 GP/s
GeForce GTX 960
36.10 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870
50.40 GT/s
GeForce GTX 960
72.10 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870
134.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 960
112.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870
2016.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 960
2308.10 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870
4540
GeForce GTX 960
10380
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
Radeon HD 6870
18
GeForce GTX 960
47
FPS (higher is better)