Radeon HD 6870 and HD Graphics 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6870 vs HD Graphics 5500
Radeon HD 6870
2285
HD Graphics 5500
598
Radeon HD 6870
HD Graphics 5500
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Gen. 8 Broadwell (2014−2015)
GPU code name
RV940 Barts
Broadwell GT2
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
January 2015
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
950 MHz
Core clock speed
-
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,016.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1120
24
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
50.40
22.80
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.80
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-