Radeon HD 6870 Overview

Radeon HD 6870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6870

Core Configuration

GPU Barts
Architecture ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 1120 : 56 : 32
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 2016.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 1024 Mb
Memory Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Speed 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 134.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    677%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    633%
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    622%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    611%
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    594%
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    550%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    527%
  • GeForce GTX 980
    477%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    444%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    433%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    411%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    405%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    405%
  • Radeon R9 290X
    344%
  • Radeon R9 290
    322%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    311%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    288%
  • Radeon R9 285
    277%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    266%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    261%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    255%
  • Radeon HD 6990
    250%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    250%
  • GeForce GTX 670
    238%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    227%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    227%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    216%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    200%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    200%
  • Radeon R9 270X
    188%
  • Radeon R9 270
    177%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    172%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    166%
  • GeForce GTX 580
    161%
  • Radeon R7 265
    161%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    150%
  • GeForce GTX 480
    133%
  • Radeon HD 6970
    133%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    127%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    122%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    122%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    105%
  • Radeon HD 7790
    105%
  • Radeon HD 6870
    100%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6870 is a graphics card released by AMD on 21 Oct 2010. The graphics card houses the Barts die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 1,700 million transistors on a 40 nm, 255 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 6870 pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

Radeon HD 6870Radeon HD 7790GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon HD 6870Radeon HD 7790GeForce GTX 560 Ti
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Shader units1120896384
ROPs321632
Graphics processorBartsBonaireGF114
Process size40 nm28 nm40 nm
Memory1024 Mb GDDR5 (1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective)
Memory bus width256 bit128 bit256 bit
Memory bandwidth134.00 Gb/s96.00 Gb/s128.00 Gb/s
Release date21 Oct 201022 Mar 201325 Jan 2011

Benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    19
  • Radeon HD 7790
    19
  • Radeon HD 6870
    18

FPS (higher is better)