ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +381%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jul 2017

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

64

1600

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Vega 10

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

188W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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