AMD Radeon RX 570 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare AMD Radeon RX 570 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1929 points

265% significantly better overall score

528 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

40 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41087 points

730% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4950 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41113 points

730% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1244 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

700% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

213th of 586

322nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 570 vs Radeon HD 6870 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 570 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 6870 in our tests.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 570 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 570 is faster than the Radeon HD 6870.