HD 6870 OR GT 1030 (FOR TESTBENCH)

[an annoying pirate]

i know the 1030 has more vram but im more interrested in which one have the best performance (excluding vram limitation) but it happend i have both gpu and i dont ♥♥♥♥ing know which one to put in my testbench/backuppc (not main gaming rig)

i tryed them both and i cant figure the difference its like if they perform the same

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If its not for gaming or professional apps, then just get very cheap GPU.
Even onboard GPU is fine when neither of these things is a factor.

HD 6870, GTX 750 Ti, GT 1030
...all perform roughly the same. The big difference are power usage under loads.
6870 needs roughly 150-165W at high loads while the 1030 only needs roughly 30W

[an annoying pirate]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Even onboard GPU is fine when neither of these things is a factor.

which is not the case you see this testbench have a core2quad q9650
which is mostly used for gaming/part testing
and i am not going to buy a gpu for this piece of shet build

and back to my original question i already have these 2 gpu and im asking which one have better performance regardless of vram and power usage

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

Id stick in the little gt1030, atleast you get physx and other nice little extras on older games and it's fully dx12, it seems to be a really good little budget GPU.

Edit.
Got my cards mixed up, the 6870 is probably the stronger card, but only 1GB of Vram is a huge limitation that will let the gt1030 pull ahead when it's reached.

[Cathulhu]

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GT-1030-vs-AMD-HD-6870/m283726vsm7744
GT 1030 is a tiny bit faster.

[an annoying pirate]

Originally posted by DefinitelyNotMonk:

If stick in the little gt1030, atleast you get physx and other nice little extras on older games and it's fully dx12, it seems to be a really good little budget GPU.

now that are answer i was looking for

thing is from reading spec from both card it seemed like the 6870 have more memory bandwith speed and 1120 Stream Processors n other stuff while 1030 have a higher clock speed and only 3xx something cuda core
*edit* those 2 post above mine are those kind of answer i was looking for

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

Yeah, but it's all how it's used, and the Vram on the 6870 will limit itself, while I've seen a few bids if late showing the 1030 being good enough for e-sport gaming and older titles, I think I saw it can even push 60fps on med/high in overwatch, which is pretty decent.

[an annoying pirate]

While this testbench will be mostly used for game that doesnt require more than 1gb of vram. (Csgo l2d2 tf2 unturned and so on). I did see i was able to play overwatch on both gpu just fine while i did see a improvement on rhe 1030 because of more vram

But then since i usualy wont need this build for anything very intensive i was wondering if the 6870 would have better performance if said game didnt use more than 1gbvram

[Cathulhu]

No, GT1030 is still better in terms of performance and requires less power to do so.

[upcoast]

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1336?vs=1130

The 6870 ^ is below the GTX 750ti and the GT 1030 is slightly above the GTX 750ti/950 iirc.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Still no contest, the 1030 wins and uses 30W TDP

[upcoast]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Still no contest, the 1030 wins and uses 30W TDP

Nobody is arguing it except for some going on about mem 256bit which doesn't matter at the end of the day.

Originally posted by an annoying pirate:

While this testbench will be mostly used for game that doesnt require more than 1gb of vram. (Csgo l2d2 tf2 unturned and so on). I did see i was able to play overwatch on both gpu just fine while i did see a improvement on rhe 1030 because of more vram

But then since i usualy wont need this build for anything very intensive i was wondering if the 6870 would have better performance if said game didnt use more than 1gbvram

Like that ^.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Generally VRAM # is not a reason you will see improvements. Either GPU's core IPC is good, or it's not, VRAM has very little to do with any of that in the end.

In most games, usually by the time the VRAM amount on the GPU is not enough, this rarely matters because the GPU tends to just not have raw performance to handle games that could fill it anyways.

1050 Ti 4GB for example; by the time you'd need over 4GB VRAM, the GPU's IPC performance already wouldn't be enough anyways, since it's performance is low-end at best.