Radeon Pro W5700X vs Radeon HD 5870
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2040MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages
Lower TDP (188W vs 205W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro W5700X
+283%
10440
Radeon HD 5870
2720
Graphics Card
Dec 2019
Release Date
Sep 2009
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1243 MHz
Base Clock
-
2040 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
20
2560
Shading Units
1600
160
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
130.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
326.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
20.89 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.44 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
652.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
205W
TDP
188W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
4x Thunderbolt
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Cypress
-
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
40 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.5
Shader Model
5.0
