Radeon RX 580 vs Radeon HD 5770

Radeon RX 580
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 580
Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 580

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 580 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 580

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 580

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 580Radeon HD 5770
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)vsJuniper (Juniper XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs166 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders2304vs800
Compute Units36vs10
Core clock1120 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs144vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 580Radeon HD 5770
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 580Radeon HD 5770
TDP150 wattsvs108 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs13 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 580
    40.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 580
    182.30 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 580
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 580
    5834.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better