GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon HD 6870 X2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated576
Place by popularitynot in top-10036
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data2.31
Power efficiencyno data14.56
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameBartsGP108
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date8 July 2011 (13 years ago)17 May 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$520 $79

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1120384
Core clock speed900 MHz1228 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1468 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate50.4035.23
Floating-point processing power2.016 TFLOPS1.127 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs5624

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x4
Length304 mm145 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1050 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth134.4 GB/s48.06 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI++
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 July 2011 17 May 2017
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 30 Watt

GT 1030 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6870 X2 and GeForce GT 1030. We've got no test results to judge.


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