Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5500 OEM Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1845MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (110W vs 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition Advantages
192 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5500 OEM
+91%
5196
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
2720
Graphics Card
Oct 2019
Release Date
Jun 2010
Navi
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1845 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
22
Compute Units
20
1408
Shading Units
1600
88
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
59.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
162.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
10.39 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.196 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
324.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
110W
TDP
228W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 14
GPU Name
Cypress
Navi 14 XT
(215-0932220)
(215-0932220)
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
(215-0735033)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.4 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
158 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
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
6.5
Shader Model
5.0
