Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5870
    100%
  • Radeon R7 360
    149%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360

88 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.
Around 49% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 360

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 360

The Radeon R7 360 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5870Radeon R7 360
GPU NameCypress (Cypress XT)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1600vs768
Compute Units20vs12
Core clock850 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5870Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5870Radeon R7 360
TDP188 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date23 Sep 2009vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5870
    4290
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)