AMD Radeon HD 6870: specs and benchmarks

AMD started Radeon HD 6870 sales 21 October 2010 at a recommended price of $239. This is TeraScale 2 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.05 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 134.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is Dual-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 220 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 151 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 9.92 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

Of Radeon HD 6870's architecture, market type and release date.

Radeon HD 6870's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6870's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Information on Radeon HD 6870's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6870: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6870. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon HD 6870. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

APIs supported by Radeon HD 6870, sometimes including their particular versions.

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 6870. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon HD 6870. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Let's see how good Radeon HD 6870 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.