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AMD Radeon HD 7870
GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon HD 7870 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7870 vs 6290 among Desktop GPUs
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 23,230 | vs | 179 | More than 129.8x better 3DMark06 score | |||
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 4,339 | vs | 136 | Around 32x better PassMark score | |||
| Much better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 23,592 | vs | 414 | Around 57x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Much higher memory bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | vs | 12.8 GB/s | Around 12x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Much higher effective memory clock speed | 4,800 MHz | vs | 1,600 MHz | 3x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,000 MHz | vs | 650 MHz | Around 55% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly better floating-point performance | 2,560 GFLOPS | vs | 104 GFLOPS | More than 24.5x better floating-point performance | |||
| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 6,194 | vs | 1,513 | More than 4x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Significantly higher texture rate | 80 GTexel/s | vs | 5.2 GTexel/s | Around 15.5x higher texture rate | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 32 GPixel/s | vs | 2.6 GPixel/s | More than 12.2x higher pixel rate | |||
| Significantly more shading units | 1,280 | vs | 80 | 1200 more shading units | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 32 | vs | 4 | 28 more render output processors | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 80 | vs | 8 | 72 more texture mapping units | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Significantly more compute units | 20 | vs | 2 | 18 more compute units | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 2,360 | vs | 43 | Around 55x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Significantly wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit | 4x wider memory bus | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,200 MHz | vs | 800 MHz | 50% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Better manhattan score | 3,714.8 | vs | 591.83 | More than 6.2x better manhattan score | |||
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| Much lower TDP | 19W | vs | 175W | 9.2x lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7870 vs 6290
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
3DMark 11 Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 11 GPU performance
3DMark Vantage Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 10 GPU performance
3DMark06 Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 9 GPU performance
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
PassMark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
CLBenchmark Raytrace Measures compute performance using OpenCL to do raytracing
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