NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (188W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +270%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 20

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

46

SM Count

-

2944

Shading Units

1600

184

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

188W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Cypress

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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