Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2012 Sep 2009
Generation Southern Islands Evergreen
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 925 MHz
Boost Clock 975 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 192.0GB/s 153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 24 20
Shading Units 1536 1600
TMUs 96 80
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 31.20 GPixel/s 27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 93.60 GTexel/s 68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.995 TFLOPS 2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 748.8 GFLOPS 544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Cypress
GPU Variant Tahiti LE(215-0821122) Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 2.154 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 334 mm²
Board Design
TDP 185W 188W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 5.1 5.0