NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +174%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

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Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 20

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

2304

Shading Units

1600

144

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Cypress

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

188W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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