AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +333%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Jun 2008

Navi

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

10

1408

Shading Units

800

88

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

RV770

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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