Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon 520
Radeon HD 5870
2282
Radeon 520
811
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon 520
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Cypress
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2009
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
320
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
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