20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The Radeon HD 3870 X2 is a very low performing piece of gaming hardware and can probably only run indie system requirements. Radeon HD 3870 X2 is capable of DirectX 10 gaming requirements.

How many years will the Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 3870 X2 in your PC? Its upgrade time for the Radeon HD 3870 X2, assuming you are a modern day gamer.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 3870 X2? A suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon HD 3870 X2 is the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which is 813% more powerful and can run 800 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon HD 3870 X2 then a good choice would be R-500 Series Radeon RX 580 8GB as this is better than 718 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 644% better performance as well.

FPS System Benchmark

0 FPS

High

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Radeon HD 3870 X2 was released on 28 Jan 2008

Radeon HD 3870 X2 Game FPS Benchmarks On Ultra

AMD PC game performance check Radeon HD 3870 X2

GPU

Architecture

R600 RV670 XT

Process

55nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

13 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

13 GPixel/s

Shader
Processing Units

640

Driver Support

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 10.1

Shader

4.1

Open GL

3.3

Resolution (WxH)

2560x1600

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Yes the Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

1024 MB

Memory Speed

900 MHz

Memory Bus

256 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR4

Memory Bandwidth

57.6GB/sec

L2 Cache

0KB

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

825 MHz

Power

Max Power

165 Watts

PSU

550 Watt & 30 Amps

Power Connector

None

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0GHz

Best RAM Match

4 GB

Best Resolution

1440 x 900

GPU Upgrade

Radeon HD 5850 1024MB

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GD Value

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Radeon HD 3870 X2 Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon HD 3870 X2 (not Crossfire) is a dual-graphics solution of two Radeon HD 3870.
This combination is expected to offer almost the same performance as Radeon HD 3870 Crossfired while consuming up to 25% less power. However, and just like Crossfire, its performance also relies a lot on proper driver support.
Today's modern demanding games will have to be played using the medium preset but with fluent frame rates. However, DirectX 11 games aren't supported.

Source [Pip]

CPU

Core I7-5775R 4-Core 3.3GHz

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 480X 4GB

741%

RAM

13GB

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Variants

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