Radeon RX 580 OEM vs HD 6870

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking595not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.00no data
Power efficiency2.66no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameBartsEllesmere
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date21 October 2010 (14 years ago)29 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$239 $229

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores11202304
Core clock speedno data1120 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz1266 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate50.40182.3
Floating-point processing power2.016 TFLOPS5.834 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs56144

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 2.0 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length220 mm241 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1050 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth134.4 GB/s256.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity+-
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1112 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2010 29 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 150 Watt

RX 580 OEM has an age advantage of 5 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 0.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon RX 580 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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