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AMD Radeon HD 6870: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

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 2-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 12.22 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.

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General info

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

Place in performance rating

209

Value for money (0-100)

47.90

Architecture

Terascale 2

Code name

Barts

Type

Desktop

Design

reference

Release date

21 October 2010

Launch price (MSRP)

$239

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price now

$89.99

of 6300 (Quadro RTX 6000)

Technical specs

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.

Pipelines

1120

of 8192 (Radeon RX Vega 64)

Boost Clock

900 MHz

of 1815 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

1,700 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

50.4 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

Floating-point performance

2,016.0 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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).

Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x16

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Length

220 mm

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

Memory

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.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

of 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1050 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

134.4 GB / s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6870.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI

Technologies

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

CrossFire

API support

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

DirectX

DirectX® 11

OpenGL

4.4

of 4.6

Video card benchmark performance

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

Overall benchmark performance

12.22

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

26437

3DMark Fire Strike Score

3002

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

3141

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

4218

3DMark Vantage Performance

17773

Passmark

2611

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

2870

Mining hashrates

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

Radeon HD 6870 performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

HD 6870

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 6870 performance compared to Counter-Strike: GO official system requirements.

HD 6870

recommended GeForce 6600

FPS tests

Real world test results of Counter-Strike: GO on Radeon HD 6870.

ultra / 1080p

189

League of Legends

2009

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 6870 performance compared to League of Legends official system requirements.

HD 6870

recommended GeForce 8800 GT

Minecraft

2009

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 6870 performance compared to Minecraft official system requirements.

HD 6870

minimum Radeon HD 2400

recommended Radeon HD 5870

Diablo III

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 6870 performance compared to Diablo III official system requirements.

HD 6870

minimum GeForce 7800 GT

recommended Radeon HD 4870

FPS tests

Real world test results of Diablo III on Radeon HD 6870.

low / 768p

280

medium / 768p

227

high / 768p

201

ultra / 1080p

127

Mass Effect 3

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 6870 performance compared to Mass Effect 3 official system requirements.

HD 6870

minimum GeForce 7900 GT

recommended GeForce 9800 GT

FPS tests

Real world test results of Mass Effect 3 on Radeon HD 6870.

ultra / 1080p

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

2011

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 6870 performance compared to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim official system requirements.

HD 6870

recommended GeForce GTX 260

FPS tests

minimum HD Graphics 530

recommended GeForce GTX 960

FPS tests

Real world test results of World of Warcraft on Radeon HD 6870.

high / 1024p

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon HD 6870 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

101.64 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

100 %

AMD Radeon HD 6870

99.35 %

ATI Radeon HD 5970

97.79 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

97.05 %

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 6870 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 460, which is faster by 2% and higher by 5 positions in our rating.