Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon HD 5770

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

43 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5770 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon Vega 8

HWBench recommends Radeon Vega 8

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon HD 5770
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsJuniper (Juniper XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs166 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders512vs800
Compute Units8vs10
Core clock300 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon HD 5770
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8Radeon HD 5770
TDP65 wattsvs108 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs13 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better