Product Compare

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2019 Nov 2012
Generation Radeon Pro Mac Southern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1100 MHz 925 MHz
Boost Clock 1200 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Clock 1710 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 218.9GB/s 192.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36 24
Shading Units 2304 1536
TMUs 144 96
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 38.40 GPixel/s 31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 172.8 GTexel/s 93.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.530 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.530 TFLOPS 2.995 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 345.6 GFLOPS 748.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere Tahiti
GPU Variant Ellesmere XTA(216-0886220) Tahiti LE(215-0821122)
Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 185W 185W
Outputs 2x HDMI 2.0b 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.4 5.1