AMD Radeon HD 7870M videocard review

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

Radeon HD 7870M videocard released by AMD; release date: 24 April 2012. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on GCN 1.0 microarchitecture codenamed Heathrow.

Core clock speed - 800 MHz. Texture fill rate - 32 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 640. Floating-point performance - 1,024 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 28 nm. Transistors count - 1,500 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 45 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 2 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 4000 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 64 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38534
1507
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1294
556
GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
27823 Frames
1367 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
27823.000 Fps
1367.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
3359 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
3359.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 1507
PassMark - G2D Mark 556
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan 1367 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan 1367.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3359 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3359.000 Fps

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0
Code name Heathrow
Launch date 24 April 2012
Place in performance rating 578
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,024 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm
Pipelines 640
Texture fill rate 32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt
Transistor count 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 64 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0