AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 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 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/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 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Jan 2009

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

850 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

10

-

1408

Shading Units

800

88

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

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

Board Design

130W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

RV770

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

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

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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