Radeon HD 5870 vs 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370X
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon R9 370X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | Trinidad (Trinidad XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 24 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 980 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon R9 370X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon R9 370X | |
|---|
| TDP | 188 watts | vs | 180 watts |
| Release Date | 23 Sep 2009 | vs | 27 Aug 2015 |
Radeon HD 5870
27.20 GP/s
Radeon R9 370X
33.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
68.00 GT/s
Radeon R9 370X
82.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
154.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 370X
179.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
2720.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 370X
2636.80 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better