HD 6870M vs RX 5600 XT

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking134not rated
Place by popularity81not in top-100
Value for money22.42no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameNavi 10Granville-PRO
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date21 January 2020 (4 years old)7 January 2011 (13 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 no data
Current price$94 (0.3x MSRP)$338
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304800
Core clock speed1235 MHz675 MHz
Boost clock speed1750 MHzno data
Number of transistors10,300 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate224.627.00
Floating-point performanceno data1,080.0 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX 5600 XT and Radeon HD 6870M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GB1 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s64 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.55.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 21 January 2020 7 January 2011
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 50 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5600 XT and Radeon HD 6870M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5600 XT is a desktop card while Radeon HD 6870M is a notebook one.


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