AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (110W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +157%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

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

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

22

-

1120

Shading Units

1408

56

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

110W

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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Navi 14

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

158 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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