AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5300 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5300 XT +91%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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Radeon RX 5300 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1670 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

22

1600

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Navi 14

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

6.5

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