AMD Radeon HD 6870: specs and benchmarks

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 15.25 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining Gaming NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

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

Place in performance rating

214

Perfomance to price

54.34

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

$89.99

of 4200 (Quadro P6000)

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 Pro Duo)

Boost Clock

900 MHz

of 1771 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)

Transistor count

1,700 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

50.4

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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 specs

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 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1050 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp)

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

Video card benchmarks 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

14.96

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

198491.00

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

26437.00

3DMark Fire Strike Score

3002.00

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

3141.00

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

4218.00

3DMark Vantage Performance

17772.50

Unigine Heaven 3.0

2736.04

Passmark

2607

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

2870

Mining hashrate

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

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

213 Mh/s

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good Radeon HD 6870 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

0.01

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

X-Plane 10.25 (2013)

low / 768p

69.00

medium / 768p

35.70

high / 768p

18.40

ultra / 1080p

14.30

Counter-Strike: GO (2012)

ultra / 1080p

189.00

Diablo III (2012)

low / 768p

280.00

medium / 768p

227.00

high / 768p

201.00

ultra / 1080p

127.00

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)

low / 720p

71.00

medium / 768p

66.00

high / 768p

53.00

ultra / 1080p

43.00

Civilization 5 (2010)

ultra / 1080p

41.50

StarCraft 2 (2010)

ultra / 1080p

80.00

GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)

high / 1024p

62.90

Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)

ultra / 1080p

38.50

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

high / 768p

98.40

ultra / 1080p

36.60

World of Warcraft (2005)

high / 1024p

94.00

Relative perfomance

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

109.97 %

AMD Radeon HD 7790

108.39 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM

102.75 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

100 %

AMD Radeon HD 6870

99.21 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

98.75 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega 11

97.9 %

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 6870 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our rating.