AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (188W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +381%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Sep 2009

Radeon Pro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

20

4096

Shading Units

1600

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Cypress

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

188W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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