GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon HD 6850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon HD 6850
GeForce GTX 1070
13916
Radeon HD 6850
2030
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon HD 6850
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
Barts
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
October 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
AGP
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
1,488.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
960
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
127 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
37.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
-
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-