Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 8570 OEM
Summary
Radeon HD 5870
221%
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 |
| Around 121% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8570 OEM |
| 138 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. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5870
The Radeon HD 5870 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 8570 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | Oland () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 90 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 730 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 20 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 8570 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 8570 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 188 watts | vs | 50 watts |
| Release Date | 23 Sep 2009 | vs | 8 Jan 2013 |
Radeon HD 5870
27.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
5.84 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
68.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
14.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
154.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
28.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
2720.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
467.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
4290
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
1940
Points (higher is better)