AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +161%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jan 2013

Polaris

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

20

-

2304

Shading Units

1600

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

Cypress

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

232 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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