AMD Radeon HD 8750A vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8750A and AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 8750A

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8750A

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
3.9x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 175 Watt

Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 175 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Around 42% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 600 MHz
4.7x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
4.2x more pipelines: 1600 vs 384
5.9x better floating-point performance: 2,720 gflops vs 460.8 gflops
2.1x more memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1600 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,720 gflops vs 460.8 gflops
Memory clock speed	4200 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8750A	AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Mars	Cypress
Launch date	2 February 2013	14 January 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	460.8 gflops	2,720 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	1600
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	2,154 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		282 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	4200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5