Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jul 2011 Apr 2018
Generation Northern Islands Mobility Radeon
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1050 MHz 2000 MHz
Base Clock 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1077 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 134.4GB/s 256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 14 36
Shading Units 1120 2304
TMUs 56 144
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 28.80 GPixel/s 34.46 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 50.40 GTexel/s 155.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.016 TFLOPS 4.963 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 4.963 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 310.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Barts Polaris 20
GPU Variant Barts XT(215-0798000) Polaris 20M XT
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1.7 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 255 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 300W 100W
Suggested PSU 700 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 No outputs
Power Connectors None
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan N/A 1.2
Shader Model 5.0 6.4