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Radeon HD 8870M vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Radeon HD 8870M vs Radeon RX 6500 XT: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — Radeon RX 6500 XT outperforms Radeon HD 8870M on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both GPUs to compare value. The better performing Radeon RX 6500 XT is 3215 days newer than Radeon HD 8870M.

Advantages of Radeon RX 6500 XT

  • Performs up to 25% better in Battlefield IV than Radeon HD 8870M - 203 vs 163 FPS
  • Up to 100% more VRAM memory than AMD Radeon HD 8870M - 4 vs 2 GB
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Battlefield IV

Battlefield IV

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Ultra

AMD Radeon HD 8870M Logo
Radeon HD 8870M

Mobile • Apr 1st, 2013


FPS

163

80%

Value, €/FPS

Price, €

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Logo
Radeon RX 6500 XT

Desktop • Jan 19th, 2022


FPS

203

100%

Value, €/FPS

€0.84/FPS

100%

Price, €

€169.99

100%

FPS and Value Winner

Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon™ RX 6500 XT ITX Pure Gaming OC 4GB GDDR6 HDMI/DP

Buy for 169.99 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 77 minutes ago

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With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Ultra

AMD Radeon HD 8870M Logo
Radeon HD 8870M

Mobile • Apr 1st, 2013

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Logo
Radeon RX 6500 XT

Desktop • Jan 19th, 2022

Theoretical Performance

AMD Radeon HD 8870M Logo
Radeon HD 8870M

Mobile • Apr 1st, 2013


Pixel Fillrate

12.4 GPixel/s

14%

Texel Fillrate

31 GTexel/s

17%

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Logo
Radeon RX 6500 XT

Desktop • Jan 19th, 2022


Pixel Fillrate

90.08 GPixel/s

100%

Texel Fillrate

180.2 GTexel/s

100%

AMD Radeon HD 8870M Logo

Radeon HD 8870M

vs
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Logo

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Apr 1st, 2013Release Date
Jan 19th, 2022
Solar SystemGenerationNavi II
Not AvailableMSRP$199
NoneOutputs1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
NonePower Connectors1x 6-pin
Mobile
Segment
Desktop
2 GBMemory
4 GB
GDDR5TypeGDDR6
128-bitBus64-bit
72 GB/sBandwidth
143.9 GB/s
725 MHzBase Clock Speed
2310 MHz
775 MHzBoost Clock Speed
2815 MHz
1125 MHzMemory Clock Speed
2248 MHz

PCs Using Radeon HD 8870M or Radeon RX 6500 XT

With selected game settings

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