Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500

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 FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 5500

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn XT)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1408vs1280
Compute Units22vs20
Core clock1670 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs88vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
TDP150 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    59.04 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    80.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    2560.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better