AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs Intel Arc B770
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Jan 2026
Generation
Northern Islands
Battlemage
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
—
2100 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1600
4096
TMUs
80
256
ROPs
32
128
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
512 KB
16 MB
RT Cores
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
307.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
614.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
19.66 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
2.458 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
39.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
BMG-G31
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
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Architecture
TeraScale 2
Xe2-HPG
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
Unknown
Die Size
334 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
175W
225W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.