ATI Radeon HD 5470 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5470

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5470 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5470

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +2361%

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5470

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Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2012

Release Date

Mar 2012

Evergreen

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

20

-

80

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

5.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

104.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cedar

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Cedar PRO

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

59 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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