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AMD Radeon HD 7870
GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon HD 7870 based on its compute performance.
See full details Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 660 |
Released March, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870
- 1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.6 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Jul, 2012)AMD's Piatcairn graphics processor uses the GCN shader architecture, it is produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC.
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Released September, 2012
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
- 980 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.3 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)Here, the MSI card delivers the highest overclocked performance despite reaching lower clock speeds.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7870 vs 660
Gaming | |
Real world tests using the latest 3D games | |
| crysis: warhead (2013), Crysis: Warhead (2012), Batman: Arkham City and 4 more | |
Benchmarks | |
Synthetic tests to measure overall performance | |
| Passmark and 3DMark Vantage Texture Fill | |
Compute Performance | |
General computing tests executed on the GPU | |
| SmallLuxGPU 2.0d4, Civilization 5 Texture Decomposition (2013) and 2 more | |
Noise and Power | |
How loud and hot does the card run idle and under load | |
| TDP, Idle Noise Level, Load Noise Level, Idle Power Consumption and 1 more | |
GPUBoss Score | |
Gaming, Benchmarks, Compute Performance and Noise and Power | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher pixel rate | 32 GPixel/s | vs | 19.6 GPixel/s | Around 65% higher pixel rate | |||
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| Better floating-point performance | 2,560 GFLOPS | vs | 1,882 GFLOPS | More than 35% better floating-point performance | |||
| Significantly better SmallLuxGPU 2.0d4 score | 16,500 | vs | 5,000 | More than 3.2x better SmallLuxGPU 2.0d4 score | |||
| More render output processors | 32 | vs | 24 | 8 more render output processors | |||
| Quieter idle noise level | 39.5 dB | vs | 40.8 dB | Around 5% quieter idle noise level | |||
| More shading units | 1,280 | vs | 960 | 320 more shading units | |||
| Better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2012) score | 221.6 | vs | 186.3 | Around 20% better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2012) score | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
| Slightly better passmark direct compute score | 2,279 | vs | 1,938 | Around 20% better passmark direct compute score | |||
| Slightly higher civilization 5 framerate | 80.3 fps | vs | 72.2 fps | More than 10% higher civilization 5 framerate | |||
| Slightly higher crysis: warhead framerate | 44.2 fps | vs | 39.6 fps | More than 10% higher crysis: warhead framerate | |||
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 6,008 MHz | vs | 4,800 MHz | More than 25% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,502 MHz | vs | 1,200 MHz | More than 25% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Quieter load noise level | 47.4 dB | vs | 48.8 dB | Around 5% quieter load noise level | |||
| Lower TDP | 140W | vs | 175W | 20% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 660
Passmark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performance
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)3DMark 11, as the name might probably suggest, makes use of the Microsoft DirectX 11 API and puts every feature of it to use, creating astonishingly realistic visuals.
3DMark Vantage (Texture Fill) Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX performance
Crysis: Warhead (2013) 1920x1080 - Enthusiast Quality + 4xAA
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)Since Crysis 2 is a multi-platform game with major development focus on the console, the graphics on launch day were only DirectX 9.
Batman: Arkham City 1920x1200 - Extreme quality + FXAA-HIGH
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)Batman: Arkham City uses the same Unreal Engine by Epic as Batman: Arkham Asylum, but it has, thanks to the engine's modularity, been overhauled and equipped with the latest technologies, including a graphics engine that takes advantage of DirectX 11.
Far Cry 3 1920 x 1080 - Ultra Quality + 4x MSAA + Enh. AtoC
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)A few months after the launch, the game was transformed into a Play4Free branded game.
SmallLux GPU 2.0d4 Measures compute performance using OpenCL to do 3D rendering
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