AMD Radeon HD 6870
VS
AMD Radeon VII
AMD Radeon HD 6870
VS
AMD Radeon VII

General info

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

449
Place in performance rating
39
16.67
Value for money (0-100)
31.61
Terascale 2
Architecture
Vega
Barts
Code name
Vega 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
22 October 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
7 February 2019 (2 years ago)
$239
Launch price (MSRP)
$699
$164 (0.7x MSRP)
Price now
$53 (0.1x MSRP)
reference
Design
no data
2.62
Value for money
35.81
RV940 Barts
GPU code name
Vega 20
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

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

1120
Pipelines
3840
no data
Core clock speed
1400 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
1,700 million
Transistor count
13,230 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
151 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
50.40
Texture fill rate
420.0
2,016.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
1120
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3840
900 MHz
Boost clock speed
1750 MHz
1,700 million
Number of transistors
13,230 million
151 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
295 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
220 mm
Length
305 mm
2x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support
no data

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 Radeon VII can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
HBM2
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
1050 MHz
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
134.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
1024 GB/s
-
Shared memory
no data

Video outputs and ports

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

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1
Eyefinity
no data
+
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
no data

Technologies

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

-
AppAcceleration
no data
1
CrossFire
no data
-
HD3D
no data
-
PowerTune
no data
-
TrueAudio
no data
-
ZeroCore
no data
-
Enduro
no data

API support

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

DirectX® 11
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
5.0
Shader Model
no data
1.2
OpenCL
no data
-
Mantle
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Radeon VII 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 Radeon VII good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Radeon VII
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Radeon VII
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Radeon VII
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Radeon VII
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Radeon VII
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

Less power consumption (151 Watt vs 295 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon VII

69.04% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($53 (0.1x MSRP) vs $164 (0.7x MSRP))

More pipelines (3840 vs 1120)

Finer manufacturing process technology (7 nm vs 40 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (16 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (1024 GB/s vs 134.4 GB/s)

So, AMD Radeon HD 6870 or AMD Radeon VII?

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

AMD Radeon HD 6870 versus AMD Radeon VII performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 6870
5.0 Out of 1 CpusData Score AMD Radeon VII