ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +58%

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Oct 2016

Evergreen

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

28

-

1600

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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