AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz 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 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (110W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +102%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

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Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Mar 2012

Navi

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

20

1408

Shading Units

1280

88

TMUs

80

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

32.00 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

110W

TDP

175W

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 8-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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