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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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Released March, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870
- 1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.4 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (May, 2012)A maximum clock of 1260 MHz is the highest GPU clock we have ever seen in a TPU review, and is only matched by the ASUS HD 7870 Direct CU II.
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Released March, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7850
- 860 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.5 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2012)This power configuration is good for up to 225 W of power draw for the former and 150 W for the latter.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7870 vs 7850 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher clock speed | 1,000 MHz | vs | 860 MHz | More than 15% higher clock speed | |||
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| Better 3DMark06 score | 23,230 | vs | 20,570 | Around 15% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 2,560 GFLOPS | vs | 1,761.3 GFLOPS | More than 45% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher texture rate | 80 GTexel/s | vs | 55 GTexel/s | More than 45% higher texture rate | |||
| More shading units | 1,280 | vs | 1,024 | 256 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 80 | vs | 64 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 50.19 | vs | 43.94 | Around 15% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Better manhattan score | 3,714.8 | vs | 3,466.99 | More than 5% better manhattan score | |||
| Slightly more compute units | 20 | vs | 16 | 4 more compute units | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 2,360 | vs | 1,854 | More than 25% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
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| Significantly higher battlefield 3 framerate | 55 | vs | 38.6 | More than 40% higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
| Lower TDP | 130W | vs | 175W | More than 25% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7870 vs 7850
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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