AMD Radeon HD 8870M, codenamed “Venus XT”, is a mid-range graphics chip, announced in late Q4 of 2012. It is part of the GCN (Graphics Core Next) generation and is constructed through a 28nm process. Its consists of 640 Radeon cores, 40 texture cores and 16 raster cores.
All of them operate at 720MHz, but the Turbo clock functionality can increase that by a potential 7%, up to 750MHz, based on the laptop’s cooling capacity.
The chip also has a 128bit bus and is available with either GDR3 or GDDR5 memory. AMD Radeon HD 8870M supports DirectX 11.1, Pixel Shader 5.1, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.2, Zero Core and Power Gating. Memory bandwidth goes up to 144GB/sec.
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AMD Radeon HD 8870M (2GB GDDR5) - specs
AMD Radeon HD 8870M (2GB GDDR5) - benchmark tests
Results are from the 3DMark: Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (higher the score, the better)
Results are from the Unigine Heaven 3.0 benchmark (higher the score, the better)
Results are from the Unigine Heaven 4.0 benchmark (higher the score, the better)
Results are from the Unigine Superposition benchmark (higher the score, the better)
Laptops with AMD Radeon HD 8870M (2GB GDDR5)
We’ve tested AMD Radeon HD 8870M (2GB GDDR5) on…
| # | Laptop | 3DMark Fire Strike (G) | Unigine Heaven 3.0 | Unigine Heaven 4.0 | Unigine Superposition | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dell Inspiron 3737 | 2190.00 | 699.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | N/A |
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