ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2009
Aug 2017
Generation
Evergreen
Vega
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1200 MHz
945 MHz
Base Clock
-
1247 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1546 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
483.8GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
64
Shading Units
1600
4096
TMUs
80
256
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
98.94 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
395.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
12.66 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
791.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
25.33 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Cypress
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Vega 10 XT(215-0894200)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
495 mm²

Board Design

TDP
188W
295W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.4