ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon R9 285

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285 +20%

3.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Sep 2014

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

28

1600

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Tonga

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

188W

TDP

190W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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