Quadro P400 vs Radeon HD 6870

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro P400 and Radeon HD 6870, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro P400 stacks up against Radeon HD 6870, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro P400 Radeon HD 6870
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 151 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 3x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6870 has 403% more power consumption, than Quadro P400.
  • Quadro P400 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon HD 6870 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • Quadro P400 has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6870.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro P400 is build with Pascal architecture, and Radeon HD 6870 - with Terascale 2.
  • Quadro P400 is manufactured by 14 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6870 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6870 is 75 mm longer, than Quadro P400.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro P400 is 2958 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 7−8 10−12
ultra / 1080p 4−5 6−7
QHD / 1440p 0−1 1−2
low / 720p 18−20 24−27
medium / 1080p 9−10 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 40% more, than Quadro P400.

Full Specs

  Quadro P400 Radeon HD 6870
Architecture Pascal Terascale 2
Code name GP107 RV940 Barts
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 7 February 2017 22 October 2010
Pipelines 256 1120
Core clock speed 1228 MHz
Boost Clock 1252 MHz 900 MHz
Transistor count 3,300 million 1,700 million
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 20.03 50.40
Floating-point performance 679.9 gflops 2,016.0 gflops
Length 145 mm 220 mm
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4008 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth 32.06 GB/s 134.4 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (12_1)
Shader Model 6.4 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
CUDA 6.1
Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 213 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
Design reference
CrossFire +
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