AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

1184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +224%

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Mar 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

36

1120

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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