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AMD Radeon HD 7870 technical specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 7870 sales 5 March 2012 at a recommended price of 412.83 USD. This is a 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.

Its power consumption is at 175 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 24.88 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro P6000.

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General info Benchmarks Mining Gaming

General info

Info on video card type (desktop or notebook), its architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

126

Architecture

GCN

Code name

Pitcairn XT

Type

Desktop

Release date

5 March 2012

Launch price (MSRP)

412.83 USD

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Quantitative parameters such as shaders number, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly say of video card performance, but to be more precise you have to review it's benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1280

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

of 1607

Transistor count

2800 Million

of 21100 (Tesla V100 PCIe)

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 12 (Tesla V100 PCIe)

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on the video card - type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. 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 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp)

Shared memory

Technologies

Technological solutions supported by the GPU. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

CrossFire

Eyefinity

API support

APIs supported by video card, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.1

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

24.88

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

6194.00

3DMark Vantage Performance

21348.00

Unigine Heaven 4.0

756

Passmark

4348

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

6230

Mining hashrate

Video card cryptocurrency mining capabilities. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Decred / DCR (Decred)

0.63 Gh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

16.6 Mh/s

LBRY Credits / LBC (Lbry)

0.04 Gh/s

Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)

0.39 kh/s

Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)

145 Sol/s

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

How good for gaming a particular GPU is. Gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade of the video card.

Overall gaming performance

19.89

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Battlefield 1 (BF1) (2016)

high / 1080p

52.00

ultra / 1080p

44.70

Fallout 4 (2015)

medium / 768p

77.40

high / 1080p