AMD Radeon HD 6870
VS
AMD Baffin
AMD Radeon HD 6870
VS
AMD Baffin

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Baffin. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

449
Place in performance rating
not rated
16.67
Value for money (0-100)
Terascale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Barts
Code name
Baffin
Desktop
Type
Desktop
22 October 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
no data
$239
Launch price (MSRP)
$164 (0.7x MSRP)
Price now
$78
reference
Design
no data
GCN generation
4.0
2.62
Value for money
no data
RV940 Barts
GPU code name
Baffin
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Baffin based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1120
Pipelines
1024
no data
Core clock speed
855 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1200 MHz
1,700 million
Transistor count
3,000 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
151 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
80 W
50.40
Texture fill rate
2,016.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
1120
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
900 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
1,700 million
Number of transistors
3,000 million
151 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Baffin.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
220 mm
Length
2x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Baffin can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
256 Bit
Memory bus width
1050 MHz
Memory clock speed
134.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Baffin, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
1
Eyefinity
+
HDMI
-
DisplayPort support

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Baffin is the additional functionality.

-
AppAcceleration
1
CrossFire
-
HD3D
-
PowerTune
-
TrueAudio
-
ZeroCore
-
Enduro

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Baffin. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 11
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
5.0
Shader Model
1.2
OpenCL
-
Mantle

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Baffin graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 6870 or AMD Baffin good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Baffin
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Baffin
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Baffin
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Baffin
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Baffin
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6870

9.94% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1120 vs 1024)

Advantages of AMD Baffin

Cheaper ($78 vs $164 (0.7x MSRP))

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (80 W vs 151 Watt)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon HD 6870 or AMD Baffin?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6870 .

AMD Radeon HD 6870 versus AMD Baffin performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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