Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon 7000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon 7000
Radeon HD 6870
2285
Radeon 7000
2
Radeon HD 6870
Radeon 7000
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name
RV940 Barts
RV100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
February 2001
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
183 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,016.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
180 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
30 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1120
-
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
50.40
0.55
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
32 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
366 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
2.928 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
7.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-