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AMD Radeon HD 7870: specs and benchmarks

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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 22.37 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

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General info

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

Place in performance rating

155

Perfomance to price

18.20

Architecture

GCN

Code name

Pitcairn XT

Type

Desktop

Release date

n/d

Launch price (MSRP)

$412.83

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$489.99

of 4095.95 (Quadro P6000)

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.

Pipelines

1280

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

2800 Million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Memory specs

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

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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

Video card benchmarks 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

22.31

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

6194

3DMark Vantage Performance

21348

Unigine Heaven 4.0

756

Passmark

4369

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

6230

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 (in FPS)

Let's see how good Radeon HD 7870 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

0.05

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Battlefield 1 (BF1) (2016)

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

Fallout 4 (2015)

medium / 768p

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

The Witcher 3 (2015)

medium / 768p