Radeon HD 6870 X2: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 6870 X2 sales 8 July 2011 at a recommended price of $520. 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 304 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6870 X2: 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 | Barts | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 8 July 2011 (14 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $520 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon HD 6870 X2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6870 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1120 ×2 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 900 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 1,700 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 300 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 50.40 ×2 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.016 TFLOPS ×2 | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 32 ×2 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 56 ×2 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 224 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6870 X2 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 | 304 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6870 X2: 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 ×2 | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit ×2 | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1050 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 134.4 GB/s ×2 | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6870 X2. 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 and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 6870 X2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6870 X2 is GeForce GTX 660 OEM.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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