AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 13.1x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
  • 20x more pipelines: 1600 vs 80
  • 26.2x better floating-point performance: 2,720 gflops vs 104.0 gflops
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 1334 MHz
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1600 vs 80
Floating-point performance 2,720 gflops vs 104.0 gflops
Memory clock speed 4200 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

  • 9.2x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 175 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Name AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark 222
PassMark - G3D Mark 163
Geekbench - OpenCL 2883

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale 2
Code name Cypress Cedar
Launch date 14 January 2013 8 January 2013
Place in performance rating not rated 1067
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,720 gflops 104.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1600 80
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s 5.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 19 Watt
Transistor count 2,154 million 292 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 282 mm 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2
OpenGL 4.4 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 134.4 GB / s 10.67 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 4200 MHz 1334 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3