Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 4520
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4520 |
| 163 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5870
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 4520 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | RV710 () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 73 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 242 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 80 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 1 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 4520 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 4520 | |
|---|
| TDP | 188 watts | vs | 25 watts |
| Release Date | 23 Sep 2009 | vs | 2 Dec 2009 |
Radeon HD 5870
27.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 4520
2.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
68.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 4520
4.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
154.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 4520
6.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
2720.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 4520
96.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better