AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs Intel Arctic Sound 1T
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2011
Jan 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
Xe Graphics
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
1229GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
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Shading Units
1120
6144
TMUs
56
192
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
86.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
172.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
11.06 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
22.12 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
—
2.765 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
Arctic Sound
GPU Variant
Barts XT(215-0798000)
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Architecture
TeraScale 2
Generation 12.5
Foundry
TSMC
Intel
Process Size
40 nm
10 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
8 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
190 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
350W
Suggested PSU
700 W
750 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
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None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.