Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon HD 5570

Radeon RX 480
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 480
Radeon HD 5570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2011
Radeon HD 5570

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 480
    1675%
  • Radeon HD 5570
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1575% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5570

111 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 480 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 480

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 480

The Radeon RX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 480Radeon HD 5570
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)vsTurks (Turks LE)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs716 million
Shaders2304vs320
Compute Units36vs4
Core clock1120 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs144vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 480Radeon HD 5570
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 480Radeon HD 5570
TDP150 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs11 Oct 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    40.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    182.30 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    10.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 480
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 480
    5834.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5570
    416.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 480
    18430
  • Radeon HD 5570
    1100

Points (higher is better)