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Radeon HD 7870M vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Radeon HD 7870M 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 7870M 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 3557 days newer than Radeon HD 7870M.

Advantages of Radeon HD 7870M

  • Consumes up to 58% less energy than AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT - 45 vs 107 Watts

Advantages of Radeon RX 6500 XT

  • Performs up to 31% better in Crysis 3 Remastered than Radeon HD 7870M - 89 vs 68 FPS
  • Up to 100% more VRAM memory than AMD Radeon HD 7870M - 4 vs 2 GB
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Crysis 3 Remastered

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Very High

AMD Radeon HD 7870M Logo
Radeon HD 7870M

Mobile • Apr 24th, 2012


FPS

68

76%

Value, $/FPS

Price, $

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Logo
Radeon RX 6500 XT

Desktop • Jan 19th, 2022


FPS

89

100%

Value, $/FPS

$1.91/FPS

100%

Price, $

$169.99

100%

FPS and Value Winner

PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT ITX Gaming Graphics Card with 4GB GDDR6 Memory

Buy for $169.99 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 288 minutes ago

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With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Very High

AMD Radeon HD 7870M Logo
Radeon HD 7870M

Mobile • Apr 24th, 2012

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Logo
Radeon RX 6500 XT

Desktop • Jan 19th, 2022

Theoretical Performance

AMD Radeon HD 7870M Logo
Radeon HD 7870M

Mobile • Apr 24th, 2012


Pixel Fillrate

12.8 GPixel/s

14%

Texel Fillrate

32 GTexel/s

18%

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 7870M Logo

Radeon HD 7870M

vs
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Logo

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Apr 24th, 2012Release Date
Jan 19th, 2022
LondonGenerationNavi 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
64 GB/sBandwidth
143.9 GB/s
800 MHzBase Clock Speed
2310 MHz
Not AvailableBoost Clock Speed2815 MHz
1000 MHzMemory Clock Speed
2248 MHz

PCs Using Radeon HD 7870M or Radeon RX 6500 XT

With selected game settings

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