Radeon HD 6870 and GeForce GT 440 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6870 vs GeForce GT 440
Radeon HD 6870
2285
GeForce GT 440
793
Radeon HD 6870
GeForce GT 440
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
RV940 Barts
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
February 2011
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
810 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
2,016.0 gflops
311.04 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1120
96
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
65 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
50.40
13.0 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
28.8 (DDR3) – 51.2 (GDDR5)
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
1 GB GDDR5 or 2 GB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMIVGADual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.2
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-