AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +29%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2013

Polaris

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

20

-

896

Shading Units

1600

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Cypress

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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