AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 112% (1645MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500M +366%

4.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500M

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Apr 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1375 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1645 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

10

1408

Shading Units

640

88

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

52.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

144.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

9.265 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

289.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Venus

Navi 14 XTM

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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