AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5700

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 +562%

7.949 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Jun 2008

Navi

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1465 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

10

-

2304

Shading Units

800

144

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

248.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

15.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.949 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

496.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

RV770

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

251 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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