AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 775 MHz
  • 5.5x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
  • 16.7x more pipelines: 1600 vs 96
  • 9.1x better floating-point performance: 2,720 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
  • 2.3x more memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1600 vs 96
Floating-point performance 2,720 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
Memory clock speed 4200 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 11.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 175 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

Name AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M
PassMark - G3D Mark 444
PassMark - G2D Mark 118
Geekbench - OpenCL 2476
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2843
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2843
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3329

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi 2.0
Code name Cypress GF117
Launch date 14 January 2013 9 January 2013
Place in performance rating not rated 1185
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 775 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,720 gflops 297.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1600 96
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s 12.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 2,154 million 585 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 282 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 134.4 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 4200 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3