AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6320

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 and AMD Radeon HD 6320 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

AMD Radeon HD 6320

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 6320

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2	AMD Radeon HD 6320
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.807
PassMark - G2D Mark		44
PassMark - G3D Mark		147
Geekbench - OpenCL		329
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		684
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1474
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1474

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2	AMD Radeon HD 6320
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Terascale 2
Code name	Barts	Zacate
Launch date	8 July 2011	16 November 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$520	$554.99
Place in performance rating	1607	1610
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Price now		$554.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.43
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
Boost clock speed		600 MHz
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