ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

1.12 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +78%

1.997 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Nov 2014

Manhattan

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

16

800

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

28.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1120 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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