AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition videocard review

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition videocard released by AMD; release date: 14 January 2013. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on TeraScale 2 microarchitecture codenamed Cypress.

Core clock speed - 850 MHz. Texture fill rate - 68 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 1600. Floating-point performance - 2,720 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 2,154 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 175 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 4200 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 134.4 GB / s.

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2
Code name Cypress
Launch date 14 January 2013
Place in performance rating not rated
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,720 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm
Pipelines 1600
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt
Transistor count 2,154 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 282 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5

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