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ASUS Radeon HD 7870
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by techPowerUp!One memory chip remains uncooled, but its position is covered by the airflow the cooling assembly produces.
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.
Gaming | |
Real world tests using the latest 3D games | |
| Radeon R9 280X 7.9 Radeon HD 7870 7.5 | |
| crysis: warhead (2013), Crysis: Warhead (2012) and battlefield 3 (2013) | |
Benchmarks | |
Synthetic tests to measure overall performance | |
| Radeon R9 280X 7.3 Radeon HD 7870 7.1 | |
| 3DMark Vantage Texture Fill, 3DMark 11 Graphics, 3DMark Vantage Graphics and 1 more | |
Compute Performance | |
General computing tests executed on the GPU | |
| Radeon R9 280X 7.2 Radeon HD 7870 8.3 | |
| Civilization 5 Texture Decomposition (2013) and CLBenchmark Raytrace | |
Noise and Power | |
How loud and hot does the card run idle and under load | |
| Radeon R9 280X 8.7 Radeon HD 7870 8.4 | |
| TDP, Idle Noise Level, Load Noise Level, Idle Power Consumption and 1 more | |
GPUBoss Score | |
Gaming, Benchmarks, Compute Performance and Noise and Power | |
| Radeon R9 280X 7.5 Radeon HD 7870 7.6 | |
Winner |
| | | ASUS Radeon HD 7870GPUBoss Winner |
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| Much better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 28,452 | vs | 6,194 | More than 4.5x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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| Better 3DMark vantage texture fill score | 114.2 | vs | 72.1 | Around 60% better 3DMark vantage texture fill score | |||
| More memory | 3,072 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 50% more memory | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 6,000 MHz | vs | 4,840 MHz | Around 25% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly more energy-efficient idle power consumption | 79W | vs | 108W | More than 25% more energy-efficient idle power consumption | |||
| Much higher crysis 3 framerate | 91 fps | vs | 25.8 fps | More than 3.5x higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 3,482 GFLOPS | vs | 2,586 GFLOPS | Around 35% better floating-point performance | |||
| Significantly quieter idle noise level | 36.8 dB | vs | 39.5 dB | More than 5% quieter idle noise level | |||
| More shading units | 2,048 | vs | 1,280 | 768 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 128 | vs | 80 | 48 more texture mapping units | |||
| Quieter load noise level | 46.1 dB | vs | 48.8 dB | More than 5% quieter load noise level | |||
| More compute units | 32 | vs | 20 | 12 more compute units | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,500 MHz | vs | 1,210 MHz | Around 25% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Higher crysis: warhead framerate | 62.5 fps | vs | 44.2 fps | More than 40% higher crysis: warhead framerate | |||
| Better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2013) score | 339.1 | vs | 296.7 | Around 15% better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2013) score | |||
| Higher battlefield 3 framerate | 106.5 fps | vs | 78.8 fps | More than 35% higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
| Wider memory bus | 384 bit | vs | 256 bit | 50% wider memory bus | |||
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| Much better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 23,592 | vs | 13.5 | More than 1747.5x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,010 MHz | vs | 850 MHz | Around 20% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly better 3DMark06 score | 23,230 | vs | 10,792 | Around 2.2x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Much better CLBenchmark raytrace score | 200,951 | vs | 9,380 | Around 21.5x better CLBenchmark raytrace score | |||
| Lower TDP | 175W | vs | 250W | 30% lower TDP | |||
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)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 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)We chose Crysis 2 as a standard test representing typical 3D gaming usage, because it offers the following: very high power draw; high repeatability; is a current game that is supported on all cards because of its DirectX 9 roots; drivers are actively tested and optimized for it; supports all multi-GPU configurations; test runs in a relatively short time and renders a non-static scene with variable complexity.
| Radeon R9 280X | vs | Radeon HD 7870 | ||
| 8.5 | 8.9 | Radeon HD 7870 | |
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