AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5300 XT 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 RX 5300 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (1845MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5300 XT +73%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5300 XT

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Nov 2012

Navi

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1670 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

24

1408

Shading Units

1536

88

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 14 XL

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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