AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 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

2281 points
332% significantly better overall score
528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS
40 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
14 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

49182 points
893% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4950 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points
824% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz
48% significantly 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

192nd 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
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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

4.5
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Radeon RX 580 vs Radeon HD 6870 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 6870 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 580 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 580 is faster than the Radeon HD 6870.

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