AMD Radeon HD 6870M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 6870M sales 7 January 2011. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Terascale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.
We have no data on Radeon HD 6870M benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6870M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Terascale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Granville-PRO | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 7 January 2011 (13 years old) | |
| Current price | $338 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
Radeon HD 6870M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6870M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 800 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 675 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 1,040 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 27.00 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 1,080.0 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on Radeon HD 6870M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6870M: 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 | DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 64 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6870M. 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 | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 6870M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6870M is GeForce GTX 760M.
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