AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon RX 5500M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1645MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500M +328%

4.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

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Radeon RX 5500M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Oct 2019

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1375 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1645 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

22

800

Shading Units

1408

40

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.64 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

144.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.265 TFLOPS

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.632 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

289.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

Navi 14

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTM

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

85W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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