AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 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

7241 points
1271% significantly better overall score
528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

148 FPS
135 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS
97 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS
123 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS
58 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

102988 points
1980% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4950 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points
1939% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz
186% significantly higher boost clock speed
900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
1100% significantly more memory
1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

64th of 586
322nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
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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 6700 XT vs Radeon HD 6870 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 6870 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 XT over the Radeon HD 6870.

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