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AMD Radeon HD 7870
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See full details| | Radeon R7 260X vs HD 7870 |
by techPowerUp!Alongside the Radeon R9 280X and R9 270X, AMD launched its entry-level Radeon R7 260X graphics card, fit for visually-intensive desktops with some mild gaming thrown into the mix.
by techPowerUp! (Dec, 2012)Looking at performance-per-watt in games, the HD 7870 jokerCard is the least power-efficient card from AMD.
Gaming | |
Real world tests using the latest 3D games | |
| Radeon R7 260X 6.3 Radeon HD 7870 7.3 | |
| battlefield 3 (2013) and Far Cry 3 | |
Benchmarks | |
Synthetic tests to measure overall performance | |
| Radeon R7 260X 6.7 Radeon HD 7870 7.2 | |
| Passmark, 3DMark 11 Graphics, 3DMark Vantage Graphics and 3DMark06 | |
Compute Performance | |
General computing tests executed on the GPU | |
| Radeon R7 260X 6.1 Radeon HD 7870 6.7 | |
| Passmark Direct Compute | |
Noise and Power | |
How loud and hot does the card run idle and under load | |
| Radeon R7 260X 5.7 Radeon HD 7870 5.5 | |
| TDP | |
GPUBoss Score | |
Gaming, Benchmarks, Compute Performance and Noise and Power | |
| Radeon R7 260X 6.4 Radeon HD 7870 7.0 | |
| | | AMD Radeon HD 7870GPUBoss Winner |
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| Higher clock speed | 1,100 MHz | vs | 1,000 MHz | 10% higher clock speed | |||
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 6,500 MHz | vs | 4,800 MHz | More than 35% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,625 MHz | vs | 1,200 MHz | More than 35% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 115W | vs | 175W | Around 35% lower TDP | |||
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| Better passmark score | 4,262 | vs | 3,044 | More than 40% better passmark score | |||
| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 23,592 | vs | 17,590 | Around 35% better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Better 3DMark06 score | 23,230 | vs | 18,730 | Around 25% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 32 GPixel/s | vs | 17.6 GPixel/s | More than 80% higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | vs | 104 GB/s | Around 50% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 2,560 GFLOPS | vs | 1,971 GFLOPS | Around 30% better floating-point performance | |||
| More render output processors | 32 | vs | 16 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Significantly higher diablo III framerate | 163.4 fps | vs | 76.9 fps | More than 2x higher diablo III framerate | |||
| Higher texture rate | 80 GTexel/s | vs | 61.6 GTexel/s | Around 30% higher texture rate | |||
| Higher battlefield 3 framerate | 78.8 fps | vs | 40.1 fps | More than 95% higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
| More shading units | 1,280 | vs | 896 | 384 more shading units | |||
| Higher far cry 3 framerate | 29.7 fps | vs | 20.2 fps | More than 45% higher far cry 3 framerate | |||
| More texture mapping units | 80 | vs | 56 | 24 more texture mapping units | |||
| Better passmark direct compute score | 2,270 | vs | 1,480 | Around 55% better passmark direct compute score | |||
| More compute units | 20 | vs | 14 | 6 more compute units | |||
| Higher crysis 3 framerate | 25.8 fps | vs | 15.4 fps | Around 70% higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
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.
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)A few months after the launch, the game was transformed into a Play4Free branded game.
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)TES: Skyrim is a very large sandbox game that rejects the quality-quantity inverse proportionality.
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.
| Radeon R7 260X | vs | HD 7870 | ||
| 7.8 | 8.9 | Radeon HD 7870 | |
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