AMD Radeon Pro 5500M vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1450MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500M +334%

4.454 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500M

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Nov 2019

Release Date

Apr 2012

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1450 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

10

-

1536

Shading Units

640

96

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

139.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

8.909 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.454 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Heathrow

Navi 14 ULA

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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