AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 15 years late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9070
+1228%
36.13 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Mar 2010
Navi IV
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1330 MHz
Base Clock
-
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
644.6GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
3584
Shading Units
1600
224
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
112
Tensor Cores
-
56
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
64 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
322.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
564.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
72.25 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
36.13 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
1129 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
228W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 48
GPU Name
Cypress
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
40 nm
53.9 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
357 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.8
Shader Model
5.0
