Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon HD 5870

Radeon RX 480
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 480
Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 480
    429%
  • Radeon HD 5870
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 329% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 480

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 480

The Radeon RX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 480Radeon HD 5870
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)vsCypress (Cypress XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders2304vs1600
Compute Units36vs20
Core clock1120 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs144vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 480Radeon HD 5870
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 480Radeon HD 5870
TDP150 wattsvs188 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs23 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    40.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    182.30 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 480
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 480
    5834.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 480
    18430
  • Radeon HD 5870
    4290

Points (higher is better)