GeForce GTX 670 and Radeon HD 6870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 670 vs Radeon HD 6870
GeForce GTX 670
5491
Radeon HD 6870
2285
GeForce GTX 670
Radeon HD 6870
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GK104
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Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
October 2010
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
915 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1344
-
Floating-point performance
2,459.5 gflops
2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1344
1120
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
151 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
102.5 billion/sec
50.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256-bit GDDR5
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.0 GB/s
1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
134.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-