ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +349%

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2020

Radeon R700

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1187 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1757 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

24

-

800

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.22 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

168.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.80 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.398 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

337.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Navi 14

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

TeraScale

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5

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