AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6310

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 and AMD Radeon HD 6310 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 28x more pipelines: 2x 1120 vs 80
Launch date 8 July 2011 vs 16 November 2010
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines 2x 1120 vs 80

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6310

Name AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 AMD Radeon HD 6310
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.807
Geekbench - OpenCL 1853
PassMark - G2D Mark 35
PassMark - G3D Mark 122
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 819
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 819
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1311
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1311

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 AMD Radeon HD 6310

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Terascale 2
Code name Barts Zacate
Launch date 8 July 2011 16 November 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $520
Place in performance rating 1607 1609
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 900 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 2x 1120 80
Texture fill rate 2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt
Transistor count 1,700 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 304 mm

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2x 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 2x 134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 1