Ice Lake GT3e vs Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code name	Cypress	Ice Lake GT3e
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	14 January 2013 (12 years ago)	no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1600	512
Core clock speed	850 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,154 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	175 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	68.00	no data
Floating-point processing power	2.72 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	8
TMUs	80	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	no data
Length	282 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	no data
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	no data
Memory bus width	256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1050 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	134.4 GB/s	no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	no data
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

40 nm

10 nm

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