AMD Radeon 550 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon 550 ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +124%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

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Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2010

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

20

512

Shading Units

1600

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Cypress

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

228W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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