AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +258%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

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Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Jan 2013

Navi

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

-

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

20

2560

Shading Units

1600

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Cypress

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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