ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (188W vs 475W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1720MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (825.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega II +418%

14.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon Pro Vega II

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jun 2019

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1574 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1720 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

806 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

825.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

64

1600

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

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

110.1 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

440.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

28.18 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.09 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

7.045 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Vega 20

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

188W

TDP

475W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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