Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
192 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1845MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
Lower TDP (130W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Radeon RX 5500 XT
+91%
5196
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Dec 2019
Evergreen
Generation
Navi
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1845 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
22
1600
Shading Units
1408
80
TMUs
88
32
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
162.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.39 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.196 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
324.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
130W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Navi 14
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Navi 14 XTX
(215-0932396)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
7 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
6.4 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
158 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
Shader Model
6.5
