ATI Radeon HD 5690 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5690

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1136 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +383%

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Nov 2012

Evergreen

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

24

-

400

Shading Units

1536

20

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

15.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

620.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

64W

TDP

185W

250 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

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Tahiti

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

352 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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