ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 570

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition AMD Radeon RX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 +87%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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Radeon RX 570

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Apr 2017

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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