ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +29%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

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Radeon RX 560DX

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Apr 2018

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

14

1600

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

188W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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