AMD Radeon Pro W6900X vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2150MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (188W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6900X +709%

22.02 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Sep 2009

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

-

2150 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

20

-

5120

Shading Units

1600

320

TMUs

80

128

ROPs

32

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

275.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

688.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

44.03 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

1376 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

188W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Cypress

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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