Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon RX 570 X2 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 5850

Radeon RX 570 X2

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Cypress

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2009

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1206 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,088.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1440

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

180 Watt

Texture fill rate

52.20

154.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

8.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

268.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.0b

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3