Radeon HD 6870 and GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE) - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6870
GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE)
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
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GPU code name
RV940 Barts
MCP79MX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
October 2008
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
900 MHz
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Core clock speed
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450 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,016.0 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
282 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1120
16
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
50.40
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
1
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HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
10.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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AppAcceleration
-
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CrossFire
1
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Enduro
-
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HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
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TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
-
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