Radeon HD 6870 and Quadro 600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6870 vs Quadro 600
Radeon HD 6870
2285
Quadro 600
550
Radeon HD 6870
Quadro 600
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
RV940 Barts
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
October 2010
December 2010
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
640 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,016.0 gflops
245.76 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
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
50.40
10.24
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-