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AMD · TeraScale 2 · 2010

Radeon HD 6870 (Barts XT) — 1 GB

Radeon HD 6870 (Barts XT) — 1 GB: 1 GB GDDR5, 151 W, 1,120 Stream processors. Launched October 22, 2010 at $239.

Memory
1 GB
Power
151 W
Bus width
256 bit
Memory1 GB54 of 183 in Radeon HD
Power151 W29 of 157 by higher draw in Radeon HD
Stream processors1,12027 of 179 in Radeon HD
Launch price$23932 of 75 in Radeon HD

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Memory

Capacity
1 GB
Memory type
GDDR5
Bus width
256 bit
Memory clock
1,050 MHz
Bandwidth
134.4 GB/s

Compute

Stream processors
1,120
TMUs
56
ROPs
32
FP32
2,016 GFLOPS
Pixel fill rate
28.8 GP/s
Texture fill rate
50.4 GT/s

Board

TDP
151 W
Bus interface
PCIe 2.1 ×16
Form factor
desktop
Launch MSRP
239 USD

Physical

Architecture
TeraScale 2
Process
40 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
Die size
255 mm²
Series
Radeon HD
Launch date
October 22, 2010

Not recorded by the source: generation, codename, sm count and base clock, or 3 further fields.

Silicon, made visible

Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.

255 mm² die · 1,120 shadersDie area drawn to scale against the catalog maximum of 1,540 square millimeters. Each dot = 8 shaders.255 mm² die · 1,120 shadersEach dot = 8 shadersDashed frame = largest catalog die (1,540 mm²)

Within its series, the Radeon HD 6870 (Barts XT) ranks 19th of 121 for FP32 throughput and 54th of 183 for memory capacity. Its 151 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.

Source: Wikipedia, revision 1364362273 · catalog loaded 2026-08-16