Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition sales 14 January 2013. This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 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 a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 282 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 175 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameCypress
Market segmentDesktop
Release date14 January 2013 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1600of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed850 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors2,154 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)175 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate68.00of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs32of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs80of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache160 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache512 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length282 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1050 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth134.4 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI+

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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