Radeon E8870 PCIe vs RX 6400

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking279not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation53.99no data
Power efficiency25.60no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameNavi 24Saturn
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date19 January 2022 (2 years ago)29 September 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 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 cores768768
Core clock speed1923 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed2321 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,400 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate111.448.00
Floating-point processing power3.565 TFLOPS1.536 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs4848
Ray Tracing Cores12no 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 3.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s96 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a4x DisplayPort 1.2
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.76.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.22.1
Vulkan1.31.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 January 2022 29 September 2015
Chip lithography 6 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 75 Watt

RX 6400 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 366.7% more advanced lithography process, and 41.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6400 and Radeon E8870 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6400 is a desktop card while Radeon E8870 PCIe is a notebook one.


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