ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon R9 390

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (188W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 +88%

5.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon R9 390

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jun 2015

Evergreen

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

40

1600

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

160.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.120 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

640.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Grenada

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

188W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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