AMD Radeon HD 7870

The AMD Radeon HD 7870 is a DirectX 11.1 high-end graphics card for desktop PCs. It is built with the 28nm Pitcairn XT chip which uses the GCN architecture.

The desktop Radeon HD 7870 is similar to the mobile Radeon HD 7970M which uses the same chip with slower clock rates (850 MHz versus 1000 MHz core clock). Therefore, the performance of the 7870 is slightly better than the mobile 7970M or 8970M / R9 M290X (both clocked at 850 to 900 MHz).

The performance is usually suited for Full HD gaming at high settings. Only Company of Heroes 2 and Crysis 3 were falling below 30 fps in maximum detail settings with enabled Antialiasing.

Manufacturer	AMD
Codename	Pitcairn XT
Architecture	GCN
Pipelines	1280 - unified
Core Speed	1000 MHz
Memory Speed	4800 MHz
Memory Bus Width	256 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory	2048 MB
Shared Memory	no
DirectX	DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.1
Transistor Count	2800 Million
technology	28 nm
Features	Eyefinity, HD3D, CrossFire
Date of Announcement	05.03.2012
Link to Manufacturer Page	http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/g...

Benchmarks

3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score

6190 Points (16%)

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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU

6194 Points (11%)

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AMD Radeon HD 6250 -97%

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M SLI -8%

AMD Radeon HD 7970M -5%

NVIDIA Quadro P620 -4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI -3%

NVIDIA Quadro P1000 -3%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 -2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M -2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M -2%

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000) -2%

AMD Radeon HD 7870

NVIDIA GeForce MX350 1%

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs 2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M SLI 3%

AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire 4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 9%

AMD Radeon Pro 460 9%

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 10%

AMD Radeon R9 M390 10%

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 848%

100%

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +

3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +

3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard

102101 Points (53%)

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3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard

29417 Points (55%)

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3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Heaven 2.1 - Heaven 2.1 high

87 fps (16%)

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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Gaming graphics

7.9 Points (100%)

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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Graphics

7.9 Points (100%)

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Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +

Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +

Cinebench R15
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit +

Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit +

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Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.