AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (107W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +111%

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2010

Navi II

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

20

-

1024

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

228W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Cypress

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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