Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon R9 370X

Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon R9 370X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 370X

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 370X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 370X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5870Radeon R9 370X
GPU NameCypress (Cypress XT)vsTrinidad (Trinidad XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1600vs1280
Compute Units20vs24
Core clock850 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5870Radeon R9 370X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5870Radeon R9 370X
TDP188 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date23 Sep 2009vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    33.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    82.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370X
    2636.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better