AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +256%

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

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Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1130 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

36

1120

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Navi 10

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

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

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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