AMD Radeon Pro W5700X vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2040MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 205W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W5700X +248%

10.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5700X

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Nov 2012

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1243 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

2040 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

24

-

2560

Shading Units

1536

160

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

130.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

326.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

20.89 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

652.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

205W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

352 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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