AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition AMD Radeon Pro W5500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1855MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500 +92%

5.224 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

Radeon Pro W5500

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1744 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1855 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

22

1600

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.36 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.45 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.224 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

326.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Navi 14

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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