AMD Radeon R9 380X vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

VS

AMD Radeon R9 380X

ATI Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X +90%

3.973 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

VS

Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Sep 2009

Pirate Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

182.4GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

18

-

2048

Shading Units

1440

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

124.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

3.973 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.973 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

248.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

151W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

Cypress

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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