AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT and NVIDIA GeForce 6500 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 58.5x more texture fill rate: 93.6 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 9x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 666 MHz
  • 117.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4470 vs 38
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 661 vs 300
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 November 2012 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 93.6 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 666 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4470 vs 38
PassMark - G2D Mark 661 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6500

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4470
38
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
661
300
Name AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT NVIDIA GeForce 6500
PassMark - G3D Mark 4470 38
PassMark - G2D Mark 661 300
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.399
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1230.47
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 78.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 345.793
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2810
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3264
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2810
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3264
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1745

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Curie
Code name Tahiti NV44 A2
Launch date 19 November 2012 1 October 2005
Launch price (MSRP) $270
Place in performance rating 548 545
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 975 MHz
Core clock speed 925 MHz 400 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,995 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 1536
Texture fill rate 93.6 GTexel / s 1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 75 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB / s 10.66 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 666 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2