NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

1083% significantly better overall score

528 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

129 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

1138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4950 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

1290% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

75% significantly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

1000% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

321st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon HD 6870 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 6870 in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is faster than the Radeon HD 6870.