Radeon Pro W5700X vs Radeon HD 6870 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2040MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (205W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro W5700X
+417%
10440
Radeon HD 6870 X2
2016
Graphics Card
Dec 2019
Release Date
Jul 2011
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
Northern Islands
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
1050 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
14
2560
Shading Units
1120
160
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
130.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
326.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
20.89 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.44 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
652.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
205W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
4x Thunderbolt
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Barts
-
GPU Variant
Barts XT
(215-0798000)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
40 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
255 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
