Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon HD 5770

Radeon RX 590
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 590
Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 590

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5770

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 590

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 590

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 590Radeon HD 5770
GPU NamePolaris 30 (Polaris 30 XTX)vsJuniper (Juniper XT)
Fab Process12 nmvs40 nm
Die Size244 mm²vs166 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders2304vs800
Compute Units36vs10
Core clock1257 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs144vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 590Radeon HD 5770
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 590Radeon HD 5770
TDP0 wattsvs108 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs13 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 590
    49.44 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 590
    222.50 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 590
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 590
    7119.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better