Radeon HD 6290 and Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6290
Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Zacate
Cypress
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2011
January 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
104 gflops
2,720 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.200
68.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
4200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
134.4 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A