ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +287%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Aug 2017

Evergreen

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1156 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

56

1600

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Vega 10

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

210W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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