AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1560MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (125W vs 185W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5600 OEM
+113%
6.39 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7870 XT
2.995 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2020
Release Date
Nov 2012
Navi
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1130 MHz
Base Clock
925 MHz
1560 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
24
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
1536
128
TMUs
96
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
99.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
199.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
93.60 GTexel/s
12.78 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.390 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.995 TFLOPS
399.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
748.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
185W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
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 Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 10 XE
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE
(215-0821122)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
