AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1980MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary +402%

10.14 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Oct 2010

Navi

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1680 MHz

Base Clock

-

1980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

14

-

2560

Shading Units

1120

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

126.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

316.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

20.28 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.14 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

151W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Barts

Navi 10 XTX

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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