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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 15.4% (243rd of 714)

more Based on 25,443 user benchmarks.  Devices: 1002 6738, 1002 6898 Models: AMD Radeon HD 6800, AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series, ASUS EAH6870, Radeon HD 6800, AMD Radeon HD 6870
Poor: 15%Average: 15.4% Great: 16%

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Terrible average bench

The AMD HD 6870 averaged 84.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 21.5fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 11.8fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 6870 is just 1.89%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD HD 6870 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 20.7fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 19.2fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 25,443 samples)
Rank 24315.4%
Min Avg Max
20.1 Lighting 21.5 22.9
19.8 Reflection 20.7 21.9
18.5 Parallax 19.2 21
17.5% 20.5 fps
Min Avg Max
13.6 MRender 14.3 15.1
15.4 Gravity 15.8 16.5
11.6 Splatting 11.8 12.3
11.2% 14 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
MSI(1462 2450) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
15.6% Very poor
Lighting 21.8
Reflection 20.7
Parallax 19.5
18% 20.7 fps
MRender 14.5
Gravity 16
Splatting 12
11% 14.2 fps
Asus(1043 03B0) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
15.5% Very poor
Lighting 21.7
Reflection 21
Parallax 19.4
18% 20.7 fps
MRender 14.5
Gravity 15.9
Splatting 11.9
11% 14.1 fps
Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
15.4% Very poor
Lighting 21.5
Reflection 20.9
Parallax 19.2
18% 20.5 fps
MRender 14.2
Gravity 15.8
Splatting 11.8
11% 13.9 fps
Sapphire(174B E178) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
15.3% Very poor
Lighting 21.4
Reflection 20.8
Parallax 21.3
17% 21.2 fps
MRender 14.2
Gravity 15.7
Splatting 11.7
11% 13.9 fps
XFX(1682 3100) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
15.1% Very poor
Lighting 21
Reflection 20.3
Parallax 19.1
17% 20.1 fps
MRender 14
Gravity 15.7
Splatting 11.7
11% 13.8 fps
AMD(1002 00D0) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
14.9% Very poor
Lighting 20.6
Reflection 20.7
Parallax 19
17% 20.1 fps
MRender 14.2
Gravity 15.6
Splatting 11.7
11% 13.8 fps
Sapphire(174B E177) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
12% Very poor
Lighting 15.4
Reflection 19.8
Parallax 18.8
13% 18 fps
MRender 13.9
Gravity 15.5
Splatting 11.6
11% 13.7 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Sapphire(174B 174B) 28% 15% ± 1%
AMD(1002 00D0) 12% 15% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3103) 9% 15% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E177) 8% 15% ± 1%
XFX(1682 3107) 7% 15% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3100) 7% 15% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2305) 5% 15% ± 0%
Asus(1043 03C6) 5% 16% ± 0%
Asus(1043 03B0) 4% 16% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21FA) 4% 15% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2010) 3% 16% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3108) 2% 15% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2450) 2% 16% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2510) 2% 16% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E178) 2% 16% ± 1%
XFX(1682 3101) 1% 16% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 200F) 1% 15% ± 0%
Asus(1043 03AE) 1% 15% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3104) 0% 16% ± 0%
AMD(1002 6738) 0% 15% ± 0%
XFX(1682 310A) 0% 15% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2511) 0% 16% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 3101) 0% 14% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21FB) 0% 16% ± 0%
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Gaming 7%
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Desktop 71%
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Workstation 6%
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CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples2,022x
Core i7-2600Intel  $195Bench 67%, 185,630 samples1,566x
Core i5-3470Intel  $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples932x
GPU
HD 6870AMDBench 15%, 25,443 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples820x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples455x
A400 480GBKingston  $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples424x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples516x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples376x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples297x
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USA-User
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Poor (edit your comment) Add link

20 months ago.

cant run games an integrated graphics card could

CAN-User
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4,956

Terrible

2 years ago.

La qualité de cette carte ces sa durée de vie 7ans en fonctionnement 24h/24h 7j/7j pendant plus de 7 ans j'ai utiliser cette carte j'ai du l'arrêter a cause de mon alimentation qui a grillé le PC mais quelle que composante a survécu je les garde pour une nouvelle config AMD sois Radeon VII ou Radeon Navi RX3080.

FRA-User
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4,573

Excellent

3 years ago.

i bought this GPU in 2020 for $10 and its totally worth it, hard to believe some people buy socks for more expensive

NLD-User
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3,510

Excellent

5 years ago.

bought it from release and is stil going strong in most titles

DZA-User
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2,742

Poor

6 months ago.

like it because its cheaper than gtx 750 in 2022

EST-User
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1,614

Excellent

2 years ago.

Good performance. Gets really loud, but that's to be expected.

usbserial
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12

Poor

6 years ago.

Modest performance and very power hungry.

mbeaudet
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12

Good

5 years ago.

This card was very good for its era. Served me very well for 8 years. 2011-2019 #RIP

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