AMD Radeon RX 550X vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 188W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 +124%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Sep 2009

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

20

-

512

Shading Units

1600

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

188W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Cypress

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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