ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition AMD Radeon R9 380X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X +46%

3.973 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 380X

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Nov 2015

Evergreen

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1425 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

182.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

32

1600

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.04 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.973 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.973 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

248.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Antigua

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

190W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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