ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

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

608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT +333%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2019

Radeon R700

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

22

-

800

Shading Units

1408

40

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Navi 14

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

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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