Radeon HD 5570 vs Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Radeon HD 5570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2011
Radeon HD 5570
Radeon HD 8470 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5570

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8470 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5570

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5570Radeon HD 8470 OEM
GPU NameTurks (Turks LE)vsCaicos (Caicos XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors716 millionvs370 million
Shaders320vs160
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs16vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5570Radeon HD 8470 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5570Radeon HD 8470 OEM
TDP39 wattsvs35 watts
Release Date11 Oct 2011vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5570
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    3.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5570
    10.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    6.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5570
    16.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5570
    416.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    248.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better