12 Jan 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon HD 7870 XT Crossfire is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

This PC hardware performance game review for the Radeon HD 7870 XT Crossfire graphics card, when running 2020 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. 315 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the Radeon HD 7870 XT Crossfire can run Red Dead Redemption 2 at 1080p and saw it return playable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 106 FPS, Medium: 83 FPS, High: 56 FPS and Ultra: 40 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that FIFA 20 returns a strong 125 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the Radeon HD 7870 XT Crossfire ran Red Dead Redemption 2 to a playable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 81 FPS, Medium: 63 FPS, High: 43 FPS and Ultra: 31 FPS. Another game tested was FIFA 20, L: 214FPS, M: 178FPS, H: 131FPS, U: 95FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which returned L: 81FPS, M: 63FPS, H: 43FPS, U: 31FPS at 1440p. 1440p Radeon HD 7870 XT Crossfire PC gaming is a good choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

How many years will the Radeon HD 7870 XT Crossfire graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 7870 XT Crossfire in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 7870 XT Crossfire? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 60% better and can meet 882 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB which is 26% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 752 games from the most demanding games today.