AMDs Old HD6870 Finally Tested in 2020

[@crashbandicoot5636]

You literally posted 20min away from RandomGaminginHD, collab soon please? Love you both!

[@rizkifathi8421]

Great...

[@j-man6001]

cant type got thermal paste all over my fingers!

[@superknightlol]

he already did, check out his old vid

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

@@superknightlol I don't think you've got the right fella

[@superknightlol]

Budget-Builds Official sorry i thought it was rgihd but it was tech throwdown. it was long time ago.

[@jonathanellis6097]

I have zero intention of buying one of these cards, but I always like watching these kind of retrospective videos on older hardware. It is a surprise how well it holds up.

[@klym8_]

Your voice is so soothing, i watch this before sleep and it was perfect :)

[@scellyyt]

I have played around with a couple terrascale cards and i agree, it is a true shame drivers aren't as abundant.

[@cyphaborg6598]

*CS :GO is a much harder card to run these days* I agree lol.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

My favorite card. Matrox's CSGO

[@Shiver2002]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial I'm a big fan of the CSGO Voodoo.

[@NEK1911]

Shiver2002 that really boosts your HD CS:GO

[@krazycharlie]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Coupled with everyone's favorite CPU line of old days: the FX series? Sure! Why not!

[@zushikatetomotoshift1575]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial I like my CSGO 2080 super lol

[@hansyang1697]

HD6870 is actually the first graphics card I purchased for my build in mid-2011. i7-2600 +Sapphire HD6870 Vapor-X OC. Pretty Solid card for 1440*900 gaming on medium settings

[@enzomeister]

0:21 I got scared i taught that the GPU started falling, nice video btw.

[@MarkTheMorose]

Me too!

[@CYellowan]

This card can easily be overclocked to gain about 5% more performance. Just some thermal grizzly and you are good to go. It's extremely underrated for Esport games, good vid as per usual.

[@rinserofwinds]

Had this one for a really long time. Upgraded it with a passive cooler, so it was dead silent. Now it lives it final days in a budget DOTA2 machine and runs it on 1080p high with stable 80-90 fps. It is a great card, the 1gb vram, but especially the dropped driver support cut its life short. Still got nearly 10 years of life out of it. Great deal!

[@GPULibrary]

Finding joy for older hardware and truly validate them its the true art. Awesome video for showing how much fun you can have with a GPU that was release so many years ago.

[@cattycyoutube]

Love the addition of BeamNG.drive to the benchmarks!

[@Mdudeman13]

Catty C KZbin My legit favorite game!

[@Dimondminer11]

Especially benchmarking the Italy map. That is currently the hardest map to run (not for my Fury though)

[@nicholaskremin4987]

Anyone know what the white car in the Italy map was? I can’t remember

[@virtualtools_3021]

@@nicholaskremin4987 Fiat. stands for fix it again, tony

[@LaskyLabs]

*Skips the filming of the thermal paste app.* Very smart.

[@hrayz]

Vote time: "too much paste" or "too little paste"

[@Luisramcantu]

@@hrayz too much, it's always too much!

[@g_a_b_r_i_e_l_]

@@Luisramcantu no such thing

[@Luisramcantu]

@@g_a_b_r_i_e_l_ I was kidding. But most of the time KZbinrs use a lot of paste that it spreads over the edges of the die.

[@DemomanX614]

Got this card in 2011, and was my first "big boy" card. I love this card for kicking so much ass. Atkham Knight was the game that made me go "its alright old friend." But I was able to beat the game (bounced at like 15fps to 20 at the highest) I still remember it coming with a free download for Duke Nukem Forever lol

[@nathanielcharnas8972]

Legit paused Doom Eternal just to watch this, love you man.

[@ryanolsen294]

Daniel Jankových it’s only a game

[@nathanielcharnas8972]

Daniel Jankových I pause it for my favourite KZbinrs you dingus

[@FullyBuffered]

Great video! From my own testing with TeraScale I can also attest to the hit-and-miss performance reputation that these TeraScale cards have acquired. Overall though, they're not terrible, but they're simply no match compared to how well Fermi aged.

[@ThePizzaByte]

These cards are FANTASTIC video rendering cards. The hardware acceleration with them is sublime. Definitely not something to dismiss if you want to render videos while also wanting to keep gaming with your main pc.

[@lucasward9506]

that moment when a pandemic hits before you have money to spend on a gaming pc and you have to work with what you have.

[@hansbehrends438]

I built a gaming PC back in 2011 for USD $2000 It had 8GB of RAM, Phenom II 1060T and two Barts XT with 1GB each built it in anticipation of Deus Ex HR, SKyrim was also released that year Of course hardly any game would take advantage of SLI, I ran my games on 1 GPU, but both cards were mining bitcoin like a champ when I was at work, I mined a total of 11 bitcoins with them that year

[@nidiahk]

This was my first ever videocard purchase :') ran it with my phenom x4 955 BE nice to see it's still able to run at all

[@mythologicalz]

When the 13.3 legacy driver hits and xfire scales Anyway, great video as always and mad hype for potential fermi comparison

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Cheers myth much appreciated

[@rodyschannal3143]

Terascale: meeeh let it die CCN: FiNeWINE!!!

[@MirelRC]

It's GCN...

[@rodyschannal3143]

@@MirelRC ...yes,right Graphics Core Next

[@gnarlin4964]

Can you please test this card on Linux with the open source mesa drivers? The OpenGL support should be much better.

[@williamliesenberg]

I have a XFX 5770 1GB on an older Lynnfield i7 875k and it works beautifully after 10 years ( i bought it brand new in 2010 ) its really a shame that driver support has dropped so early. it runs at max temp of 75c with 100% utilization and it is rock solid stable... I used it as my main card until 2016, the lack of driver support and low VRAM made me buy a 1060 6GB witch i use currently on a Ryzen 3600. Great content... you should explore in the future the Lynnfield CPU's since they still have all the instructions necessary to run any modern application and are fairly cheap. A great motherboard witch my 875k runs are the DP55KG form Intel that has UEFI support witch is amazing coming form a board form 2009... the only bug with windows 10 are suspend and hibernate mode that cause windows to crash almost the moment you wake the machine after a sleep or hibernate state... but since i run a SSD in that PC there is no need to have sleep and hiberante on... so i disabled those options in the power options menu and everything runs rock solid. Best Regards, Will

[@yukayuyu3844]

I've used this one for 6 years, until 2017. It was completely adequate for playing games at lower graphical settings at resolutions up to 1080p, also it's pretty good for productivity - my XFX variant has 5 display outputs in total. Newer games really starve for that VRAM though and the 1GB here isn't enough at times - note that there's a rather rare 2GB HD6870 variant out there, pretty sure it's a dual fan XFX card. If you can find one for cheap you should bench it because the results could be quite different.

[@xrellx]

I'd contribute one to the cause, used her until the end of the R9 390X's generation (Far Cry 5?) and only upgraded due to pushing a modded title... ngl I'd want it back but I'll pay shipping both ways!

[@TommyAgramonSeth]

I've had a blower style HD 6870 by Asus since 2011 until it inadvertently cooked itself in 2016. I think I've got a good mileage out of it, several thousands of hours of gameplay, in fact. The 1 GB VRAM and dropped driver support was definitely its biggest disadvantage.

[@behradofia1975]

I was a fan of Your Channel when you started no matter whats happening when you Release a video i have to watch it

[@dikbozo]

I spent the morning cleaning my HTPC and while I was at ti, I pulled out my HIS HD6670 1GB DDR5 and replaced it with my Sapphire R7 360 2GB DDR5. The box hadn't been opened in a couple of years and surprisingly wasn't very dusty, let alons dirty or bug infested. I didn't even need to replace any of the thermal paste! after the light cleaning and vacuuming required was doen I threw a video merge and resize at it and temps were very good, about 50C under load (about 80%)on the Athlon II X4 640. I have never had any issues with the HD6670 despite what others have written about it. It simly ran what older games I had and never had any hardware issues with video playback. the reason I retired it today was because the box was open and the R7 360 was wining for the fjords. BTW FWIW I really like the R7 as well.

[@Dimondminer11]

Would that athlon be a good upgrade for my mom's old pc? (Phenom II X2 521) or should I just not bother and give her an athlon 3000ge based system?

[@evilqtip7098]

Nice video>... I loved the 6870 for old games it worked really nicely. Serious sam etc... type games...

[@andrewapperley]

This is the GPU I bought for BF3 but now I use it in my film photography editing PC. Still works great.

[@jeyendeoso]

awww yiss bois mid-week video! what a great surprise!

[@6Twisted]

I started PC gaming on a 6870 back in 2011 and my brother used it up until a couple of years ago when it died. It served it's purpose at the time allowing me to play AAA games at 60fps at 720p and simpler games at 1080p. Also the GTA5 menu is bugged. I drop from 120fps to 11 on my Ryzen 5 3600 and 1070 Ti.

[@Phoenix_SW20]

I used to have a HIS 6870 IceQ X. I was given it for free in box and I never had a chance to play around with it. Ended up giving it away to a friend. Surprising to see how a 6870 performs given Terascale's lack of support compared to HD 7000 series and newer. Not bad for 10 bucks.

[@brentboymebob8754]

You know what's depressing? This card is more powerful than mine

[@kaitoharrison872]

I found an HD6850 (960 shader instead of 1120 for HD6870) in a e-waste dumpster earlier this year and have to use a heatgun to fix it. This card save my ass when my RX 480 decided to stop working. Though, I mainly play Civ 5 during those time so not exactly demanding game.

[@johncate9541]

Not surprised. I have an HD 6970 that I still use. It's not anything great by 2020 standards, but I picked it up for $50 in 2014 (a steal then) and I've run it in one of my machines ever since. It's got 2 GB of VRAM on board and doesn't run into some of the issues this 6870 does, but they also sell for $30-70 on eBay these days, depending on the luck of the draw.

[@Ndlanding]

Very interesting and well-presented video, thanks. I'll be looking forward to next week's, as I am still using (and extremely happy with) my nvidia GTX460 1GB. :)

[@wekt6666]

Which Games do you play with it?

[@Ndlanding]

@@wekt6666 I bought a lot of games years back, but never had time to play them much, so mostly they're 5-10 years old. Crysis runs great (!), GTA IV the same, COD 4, Far Cry 2, Max Payne 3, various racing games... I've got more recent games -- not the latest! -- but only tried them briefly, with no probs.

[@thetruejay20]

My HD 7870 is still one of my favorite cards, even though I have much more powerful gpus.

[@MrKillswitch88]

Looks like a great opportunity for those who like to build retro rigs to stock up on the cheap, I still got four new old stock x1900XTs waiting to be used someday.

[@dreammfyre]

I got a 2GB 760 for like 20€ last year. Works great for me as I have no interest in AAA games and it’s enough for F2P stuff like POE and various indie games/emulators.

[@opelfamily5458]

760 can run AAA games well.

[@realsentientpotato]

Awesome video as always dude. My ma quite enjoyed it

[@nicekeyboardalan6972]

Man i love the 6870 it played GTAV at 1080p 30fps at high setting, except maybe shadows an grass? Good times.

[@lobaxx]

I’m still rocking my 6850, waiting for a time when I can actually get my hands on a new card.

[@PrimitavePCs]

thank you fdor benchmarking beamng drive and cities skylines!

[@hrayz]

Back in the day I held out and waited for the HD7850. Even the cheaper 1GB card served me well (I still use it in a TV system playing movies and light games.) Got DX12 support and +50% performance vs my friends HD6870. The latest drivers are still supporting the HD7850, amazing!

[@lululock]

The HD7850 is the first gen GCN cards. Since current cards are still based off GCN, no wonder it is still supported by the latest drivers. Unless there's a huge architecture change in AMD GPUs, these older GCN cards should still be supported for the next few years...

[@hrayz]

@@lululock , since I made the original message they have cut off the first few gens of GCN. Radeon HD7000 to R9 390X are now Legacy, need RX 400s or later for the newest drivers. RIP you grand old cards!

[@lululock]

@@hrayz Oh well... They had to do it someday... At least under Linux, they use the same driver as the newer cards. So I guess their support is considered better under Linux ?

[@dragonsegg100]

A sapphire 6870 was the card I used in my first ever gaming pc back in 2011, upgrading from a windows vista laptop with integrated graphics.

[@bullseyestrat]

I have a AMD 7750 1gb which is pretty similar that was bought in 2013. It worked rather well except for the ram limitations. Upgraded to a R7 370 2gb, then RX480 8gb, then later a GTX 1080.

[@GewelReal]

quite an upgrade path lol

[@tomaszantosiewicz5132]

It has computing power similar to Xbox One S, so it's kinda obvious things work almost decent.

[@ApostKef]

Still waiting for a hd4650 video..

[@m8x425]

Ohhhh, I remember the 6870, what a curveball that was. When the 6870 came out some people thought it was the successor to the 5870, but the 6870 was actually slower than the 5870. The 6970 was the actual successor to the 5870, but the 6970 came out a a month and a half later than the 6870. I remember reading newegg reviews from people that bought the 6870 to replace their 5870, and were they ever disappointed. Moral of the story, read the reviews before buying.

[@rosyw1576]

Happy birthday Mr Official

[@Futilizer]

I still have my two 6970s back when they cost ~$400 each. They are still pretty solid today.

[@GiovanniBardazzi333]

Had 2 of those in XFire...Actually they did the job pretty well Back in the day in 1050p !

[@dukeofdream]

I bought a 6970 back in 2016 for like 50€ can’t complain about it, it even managed to play Ark survival evolved... pretty solid card! I’ve upgraded to a 390x since then and I’m still waiting for a meaningful upgrade under 200€ .... maybe RDNA 2? We’ll see :)

[@NightMotorcyclist]

I still have my Radeon HD 6950 which was modded to 6970 levels. It was still able to play many modern games up until 2018 which was when I did a completely new build with a Ryzen 5 2400G and then later on an RX 570. Fast forward to present where I have an RX 5600 XT

[@Nkrlz]

I remember when i had a 2 6850s because 2 6870 were too expensive. Great little cards, replaced them with a GTx 780 a couple years later (and i used that one for 7 years, lol).

[@samdavies1752]

My first card these were such a budget specialist

[@randomwoffle8320]

Love your vids

[@FloodRabbit541]

This was the first really good gpu in my first gaming pc. Played many a games of left 4 dead and battlefield 3 on it with my athlon x4. Good times

[@dhgodzilla1]

I used an ATI Radeon HD 5670 IceQ 1Gb DDR5 Video Card from 2009-2015 in my old Core 2 Quad Extreme before upgrading to an RX 550 & than to an 8gb RX 480 before I moved onto an i7 with an RX 580. The old ATI card did good for the games I used to play.

[@cptcrogge]

You get a 7850 (2GB) for 10-15$, it can even run games like Remnant in 1080p and games like Fallout in 720 at 40-60fps. Several hundreds! of additional core clock are possible as well. It supports 1440p 144hz out of the box.

[@SteveAkaDarktimes]

yep. still run a overclocked and undervolted HD6860, works fine for indie games and even some AAA open world games on low. Classics, 2.5D games, Strategy, Low settings, it does it very well. never had a problem with the drivers, apparently they are better on linux today.

[@Woodeh]

Your videos are so damn interesting man

[@charleslanceb.delarosa2255]

I got this card today from Intel hd 4000 to this massive boost

[@likeclockwork6473]

"Only 1GB of vram" 1GB of GDDR5 with a 256bit bus was killer compared to older GPU's that competed in its price range. Less than 3 years before the $240 HD6870 launched, the very popular GeForce 8800 GT launched with 256MB of GDDR3 for $230. The HD6870 had quadruple the memory buffer and way more than double the memory bandwidth. This was a very powerful mid range GPU in its day. Sure it was weaker than the HD5870 but that GPU was often more than $400 because of 40nm manufacturing problems and demand.

[@eyb0ss]

I remember paying £90 for one of these bad boys in the days of old, my first real GPU upgrade when I built a rig for Battlefield 3.

[@DraftySatyr]

Good Lord, one of these just sold for £79.99 on the UK eBay site!! More usually, they go for around £30.

[@Im-insanity-uwu]

i’m still using the i5 3570 and the performance still great these day.

[@tarkitarker0815]

uhhm nope. had it before, the ryzen 2600 mostly doubles my frames, my gpu was restricted like hell from the old intel, and i had the overclockable version at 4,4 ghz.

[@louisvaughan1046]

Hey budget build. I love building pc and love watching videos on them. I was wondering what ‘boot fair’ you go to get you pc as it may be interesting for me after corona virus is over to take a look. Thank

[@pirosoffaireyes]

I love how he cleans GPUs with perfume.

[@FreakyGoku69]

This is insanely good for the price

[@coreyford1612]

Would be interested in seeing how this would run in Crossfire!

[@spiderfightclub]

I remember my pair getting medium on GTA 5 at 1080P on my bulldozer rig and it was fairly solid for playing Assetto corsa.

[@interferret901]

i actually used an older card, it was an ATI Radeon HD 5670, and it wasn't that bad of a card. I used it alot to play stuff like Rainbow Six Seige, and honestly, it didn't run that badly. It had 1gb GDDR5, so it wasn't the lowest end for today.

[@AWENGERR]

I had this card for 9 years it served well. If i remember i paid almost 200$ for new one.

[@rustyshackleford309]

My radeon 6750 still plays games really well, im sure this is a step above it but still these cards are still very impressive

[@aidan4429]

Got one of these for free of someone 2 days ago so this is a nice video to have :D

[@joe-x3g]

My first GPU was a HD 6850 paired with 6gb ram and a celeron G1840. Wasn't too bad for what i played (Euro truck Sim 2 for the most part) I eventually upgraded to a 4690k and gtx950

[@nergimmm8308]

would like to see you make a lga 1155 budget build xd, you really make my build budget, love it!

[@Royan356]

I remember "upgrading" from an R7 250 with 2GB of DDR3 to a HD 6870 (I had the MSI HAWK version) and it was like day and night xd. Ofc, I had a GTX 960 and GTX 660, but both of them broke while the Hd 6870 held it's weight for at least a year until I got an RX 570 4gb and sold it for... 10 Euros :DDDD

[@mycoolhk]

Great video keep it up!

[@sockman6058]

Beamng drive tip for low fps fix , turn off lighting , helped me, got solid 60 FPS on my HD7970 Lightning 3gb, even when everything else got turned up to high.

[@iancaluya9911]

Good thing i purchased this for my old 775 pc, just for basic work from home and multi media due to the units old state think this is a good combo and best set up for the systems xeon procie just for good all around cheap pc build

[@DanafoxyVixen]

I still use the Gigabyte version of the Radeon HD6870 everyday. the only games i play is mostly cites skyline but sometimes I revisit GTA5.. it works well enough for me. I got two of these as 'hand-me-downs' as the friend who gave them to me ran them in crossfire

[@idanshahar]

I have a HD6990, it's two 6870s in one. Bad drivers, bad CF support, bad performance in many games of that era. Games that had high quality CF support ran AMAZING (Crysis 3 1080p ultra at more than 60FPS if I remember correctly), but most just utilized one core, and any cheaper NVIDIA card wiped the floor with my card. Bought it used in 2012 for around 300usd I guess. Check our Just Cause 3 at launch kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYraXmujnqlpapY

[@lukasgroot]

ending music is also in simcity3000, EA recycles tunes all the time :)

[@gorjy9610]

Few days ago I tested old MSI 6850 cyclone card, expected nothing from it just to be really surprise what it can still do. Buyed as "just give me a picture on a screen" card for my parents PC but there are still lot's of gaming power in that card, too bad it doesn't came with 2 GB of vram.

[@Sh-hg8kf]

0:39 *places the gpu right above a small puddle* Me : *nervous sweating*

[@mikefur3957]

I run a Saphire 7870 HD GHz Edition I got for $20 from a coworker. Run's great considering its age.

[@Redline748]

Great vid, was looking at one of these, think I'll leave it lol

[@icetcold3296]

I still play with this card. Mine is a MSI twin frozr 3 Hawk clocked at 1000mhz.

[@jonathanpeixe9658]

Wow! Great card for the price. Its better than my 550Ti.

[@subwayz_qt5]

Its 3 a.m and i am literally watching you. Good work. Is R7 250 Equalivent of HD 7750 or HD 6850?

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Slightly below a HD7750.

[@madhighgrounds11234]

In Civ 6, I would argue with the settings, it's a turn based strategy game, 30 FPS CAP and 1050p resolution or 900p and you should be golden, maybe 720 in high if you like that

[@Cmdr_Rhialto]

These old Amd cards do very well Linux. I still have 4850's, 5850's and a 7770 in my linux boxes. They are supported out of the box.

[@Dimondminer11]

Here's my question though. Would these cards work well with Linux gaming with however it's done on there? (Badly phrased question my brain is melting because of no school)

[@myjrbs]

I wonder how the GTX 570 would run BeamNG 🤔 nice to see you during that as a benchmark, glad to see GTA V as always and city skylines, I'm surprised you never test Roblox tho

[@theforerunnerreclaimer]

No real gamer will play roblox

[@myjrbs]

@@theforerunnerreclaimer I mean he's benchmarked Roblox since and like a year ago that's all I could play on my pc haha

[@Pepechan4561]

I'm a proud owner of one of those bad boys I'm using it with an overclocked e7300 3.3ghz and I'll tell you it's definitely worth a buck It runs Crysis at max settings 30-40 fps Gta 4 at high Metro 2033 at max Basically any title up to 2012 at high settings Just downloaded pubg lite and it runs at constant 60 at 1080p medium. Best of all, I got the whole package for 30 bucks

[@facebag666]

i loved my msi 5770's and 6850, and later 1gb 6950s

[@jackstoner9644]

I'm really surprised its better than my Graphics card.

[@gamertygonl]

I'm not surprised its better than my Graphics card.

[@Dimondminer11]

Is it a GeForce 210?

[@hansbehrends438]

well any GPU with an 8 as the second digit is higher-tier, with the first digit indicating the architecture (though the rebranding shenanigans by AMD can be confusing), A good example is this Radeon HD 8570 1GB I've got, the 6870 is much faster. Main difference being, the 8570 is still supported in modern drivers while the 6870 seems to have been abandoned

[@gabrielvieira6529]

@@hansbehrends438 Cool to know that.. I tought a radeon 9××× series would be the best

[@tarkitarker0815]

@@gabrielvieira6529 they dont even did use the thousands scheme for about 6 years and now are back to it. a 9000s series is about entry level of actual new gpu gens.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

I'm honestly a little surprised it doesn't perform better. It'd be the equivalent of a GTX 570, so I guess it's not as modern as it still feels to me, but still. GTX 570 is still a decent GPU.

[@lalnablehector1285]

I got a reference XFX 6870 for my $20 (AUD) PC build along side an i5 750 and 8gb DDR3 and it was great I even finished Wolfenstein The New Order on it @1080p ^-^

[@Ps3RetroTv]

well i game on a p106-90 3gb mining card with no display output but its limited to drivers unless u use popo os linux which i havnt tried as never used linux in my life that cost me £25 75W TDP

[@RubyIsBored]

I actually have that model of card in my windows 7 computer