Radeon RX Vega 2 vs HD 6870

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking592not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.92no data
Power efficiency2.74no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameBartsVega Raven Ridge
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date21 October 2010 (14 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$239 no data

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 cores1120128
Boost clock speed900 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate50.40no data
Floating-point processing power2.016 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs56no data

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 x16no data
Length220 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1050 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth134.4 GB/sno data
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-DisplayPortno data
Eyefinity+-
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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_1
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2010 7 January 2018
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 15 Watt

RX Vega 2 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 233.3% more advanced lithography process, and 906.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon RX Vega 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6870 is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega 2 is a notebook one.


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