AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 205W)

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2040MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5700X +417%

10.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

Radeon Pro W5700X

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Dec 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1243 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2040 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

40

-

1120

Shading Units

2560

56

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

130.6 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

326.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.89 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.44 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

652.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

205W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Navi 10

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

255 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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