A mid to low level graphics card, the Radeon HD 6870 XFX DD XXX Edition is found in budget machines nowadays, struggling to meet AAA system requirements.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 11.

This low performing GPU is unable to play any of the most demanding games available today.

How many years will the Radeon HD 6870 XFX DD XXX Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 6870 XFX DD XXX Edition in your PC? You should definitely consider replacing this Radeon HD 6870 XFX DD XXX Edition graphics card, if it is still in your gaming PC.

FPS System Benchmark

37 FPS

High

Game

Grand Theft Auto V

The Radeon HD 6870 XFX DD XXX Edition is released on the 01 Nov 2011

AMD PC game performance check Radeon HD 6870 XFX DD XXX Edition

GPU

Architecture

Terascale 2 Barts XT

Process

40nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

52 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

30 GPixel/s

Shader
Processing Units

1120

Driver Support

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 11.0

Shader

5.0

Open GL

4.3

Resolution (WxH)

2560x1600

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Yes the Radeon HD 6870 XFX DD XXX Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

1024 MB

Memory Speed

1050 MHz

Memory Bus

256 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

134.4GB/sec

L2 Cache

512KB

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

925 MHz

Power

Max Power

None

PSU

500 Watt

Power Connector

None

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core i5-760 2.8GHz

Best RAM Match

8 GB

Best Resolution

1920 x 1080

GPU Upgrade

Radeon HD 7970

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Radeon HD 6870 XFX DD XXX Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon HD 6870 XFX DD XXX Edition is a special edition of the Radeon HD 6870, part of the Radeon HD 6000 Series released by AMD in 2010/2011. See the page of the standard version for more information about it.
Compared to the standard edition, Radeon HD 6870 XFX Black Edition features a new cooling system called Double Dissipation - XFX Dual Fan and a small increase of 25MHz in the core-clock.
The performance boost is slightly and of only 1.5% when compared to the reference card, according to most benchmarks.

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Radeon HD 6870 XFX DD XXX Edition vs Avg. AAA Game System Requirements

Avg. AAA Recommended Requirements

CPU

Core i3-9350KF 4-Core 4.0GHz

Graphics Card

Radeon R9 290

144%

RAM

11GB

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darklurking21

darklurking21's Test Rig
Saved at: Nov-07-2016

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Athlon X4 750K

GFX

Radeon HD 7790 Sapphire OC Edition

RAM

6GB DDR3 1333MHz

RES

1920 x 1200
width x height

Phone

LG G Pro Lite D680

darklurking21's Game Library

10:49 May-02-2013

this one is better for games than Radeon HD 7770 Vapor-X GHz OC Edition?

streetvb

streetvb's Rig
Saved at: Dec-24-2018

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Core i5-3470 3.2GHz

GFX

Radeon HD 7950 MSI TwinFrozr Edition

RAM

8GB DDR3 1600MHz

RES

1440 x 900
width x height

Phone

Apple iPhone 5s 16 GB

streetvb's Game Library

11:52 May-02-2013

this one is slightly better, but the 7770 is a better overclocker, consumes less power and (only in my opinion) has a bit better driver support. I recommend to go for HD 7790 atlest :)

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