Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition: specs and benchmarks

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 ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Cypress
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	14 January 2013 (11 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 cores	1600	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	850 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors	2,154 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	175 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	68.00	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	2.72 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	32	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	80	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	282 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 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 type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1050 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	134.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

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

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0
OpenGL	4.4	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	N/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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