AMD Radeon HD 7870: specs and benchmarks

AMD started Radeon HD 7870 sales 5 March 2012 at a recommended price of $412.83. This is GCN architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4.8 GHz are supplied.

No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 175 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 22.27 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN RTX.

Of Radeon HD 7870's architecture, market type and release date.

Radeon HD 7870'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 7870's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7870: 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.

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon HD 7870. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

APIs supported by Radeon HD 7870, sometimes including their particular versions.

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 7870. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon HD 7870. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Let's see how good Radeon HD 7870 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.