AMD Radeon RX 470 vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +696%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

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Radeon HD 5690

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Feb 2011

Arctic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

5

2048

Shading Units

400

128

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Redwood

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

64W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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