AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +945%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Jun 2008

Navi

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

4

-

1408

Shading Units

320

88

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

110W

TDP

106W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

RV670

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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