Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (228W vs 300W)
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1600MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+381%
13110
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jun 2017
Evergreen
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1382 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
64
1600
Shading Units
4096
80
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
64
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Vega 10
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX AIR
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
6.4
