AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2010
Aug 2018
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro Turing
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1625 MHz
Base Clock
—
1275 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1620 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
624.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
—
Shading Units
1120
4608
TMUs
56
288
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
6 MB
SM Count
—
72
Tensor Cores
—
576
RT Cores
—
72
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
155.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
466.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
14.93 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
29.86 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
—
466.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
TU102
GPU Variant
Barts XT(215-0798000)
TU102-875-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
12 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
18.6 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
754 mm²
Board Design
TDP
151W
260W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.8
CUDA
—
7.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.