Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition vs HD 7870M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking702not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.96no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameHeathrowCapilano
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date24 April 2012 (12 years ago)28 October 2009 (15 years ago)

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 cores640400
Core clock speed800 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate32.0012.00
Floating-point processing power1.024 TFLOPS0.48 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4020

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-II

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s25.6 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2012 28 October 2009
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 30 Watt

HD 7870M has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

HD 6570M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7870M and Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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