AMD Radeon HD 7870: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 7870 sales 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 21.58 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
NVIDIA equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of Radeon HD 7870's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
57.42
Architecture
GCN
Code name
Pitcairn XT
Type
Desktop
Release date
n/d
Technical specs
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.
Transistor count
2800 Million
of 21100
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
of 7
Memory
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.
Memory type
GDDR5
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
of 14000
Shared memory
-
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon HD 7870. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
CrossFire
+
Eyefinity
+
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 7870, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
11.1
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 7870. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
21.58
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
6194
3DMark Vantage Performance
21348
Unigine Heaven 4.0
756
Passmark
4376
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon HD 7870. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Decred / DCR (Decred)
0.63 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
16.6 Mh/s
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)
0.39 kh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)
145 Sol/s
Game benchmarks
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.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon HD 7870 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 7870 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 4 positions in our rating.
