Radeon HD 7870 XT Overview
Summary
Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.
The Radeon HD 7870 XT is a graphics card released by AMD on 19 Nov 2012. The graphics card houses the Tahiti die, based on the AMD_GCN_1_0 architecture which packs 4,313 million transistors on a 28 nm, 352 mm2 die.
Radeon HD 7870 XT pros and cons |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Compared to similar performing cards
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| Radeon HD 7870 XT | GeForce GTX 950 | GeForce GTX 960 | Radeon R9 285 | GeForce GTX 750 Ti |
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| Shader units | 1536 | 768 | 1024 | 1792 | 640 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 16 |
| Graphics processor | Tahiti | GM206 | GM206 | Tonga | GM107 |
| Process size | 28 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Memory | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective) |
| Memory bus width | 256 bit | 128 bit | 128 bit | 256 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.00 Gb/s | 105.80 Gb/s | 112.20 Gb/s | 176.00 Gb/s | 86.40 Gb/s |
| Release date | 19 Nov 2012 | 20 Aug 2015 | 22 Jan 2015 | 2 Sep 2014 | 18 Feb 2014 |
Hitman Absolution
Radeon R9 285
43
Radeon HD 7870 XT
36
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
36
GeForce GTX 960
34
GeForce GTX 950
31
FPS (higher is better)