GeForce RTX 5070 Ti vs Radeon HD 6870
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 609 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 1.00 | no data |
| Power efficiency | 2.61 | no data |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | Blackwell 2.0 (2025) |
| GPU code name | Barts | GB203 |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Design | reference | no data |
| Release date | 21 October 2010 (14 years ago) | 20 February 2025 (recently) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $239 | $749 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
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 cores | 1120 | 8960 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 2300 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 900 MHz | 2452 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 1,700 million | 45,600 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 151 Watt | 300 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 50.40 | 686.6 |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.016 TFLOPS | 43.94 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 32 | 128 |
| TMUs | 56 | 280 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 280 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 70 |
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).
| Bus support | PCIe 2.0 x16 | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| Length | 220 mm | 304 mm |
| Width | 2-slot | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 16-pin |
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 type | GDDR5 | GDDR7 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1050 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 134.4 GB/s | 896.0 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 Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort | 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b |
| Eyefinity | + | - |
| HDMI | + | + |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| CrossFire | + | - |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | - | 1.4 |
| CUDA | - | 10.1 |
| DLSS | - | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 21 October 2010 | 20 February 2025 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 16 GB |
| Chip lithography | 40 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 151 Watt | 300 Watt |
HD 6870 has 98.7% lower power consumption.
RTX 5070 Ti, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6870 and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.
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