AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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

1836 points
247% significantly better overall score
528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40609 points
720% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4950 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34371 points
594% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1284 MHz
42% slightly higher boost clock speed
900 MHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 586
321st of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs Radeon HD 6870 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 6870 in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP is faster than the Radeon HD 6870.

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