NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 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

621 points
17% slightly better overall score
528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14780 points
198% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4950 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15314 points
209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

980 MHz
8% slightly higher boost clock speed
900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
300% significantly more memory
1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

308th of 586
322nd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon HD 6000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 670 vs Radeon HD 6870 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 670 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 6870 in our tests.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 670 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 670 is faster than the Radeon HD 6870.

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