ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT +258%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jul 2019

Evergreen

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1605 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

40

-

1600

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

188W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Navi 10

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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