Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K) vs Radeon HD 5870

Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 11 Jan 2014
Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    100%
  • Radeon HD 5870
    198%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)

173 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870

Around 98% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5870

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5870

The Radeon HD 5870 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)Radeon HD 5870
GPU NameSpectre ()vsCypress (Cypress XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size245 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors2,410 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders512vs1600
Compute Units8vs20
Core clock720 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs32vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)Radeon HD 5870
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)Radeon HD 5870
TDP15 wattsvs188 watts
Release Date11 Jan 2014vs23 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    5.76 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    23.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    737.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    2157
  • Radeon HD 5870
    4290

Points (higher is better)