AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GRID M10 8Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2010
May 2016
Generation
Northern Islands
GRID
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1300 MHz
Base Clock
—
1033 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1306 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
83.20GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
—
Shading Units
1120
640
TMUs
56
40
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
20.90 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
52.24 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
1.672 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
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52.24 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
GM107
GPU Variant
Barts XT(215-0798000)
GM107-570-A2
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Maxwell
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
1.87 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
148 mm²
Board Design
TDP
151W
225W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
CUDA
—
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.