Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 8790M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 8790M
Radeon HD 5870
2282
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon HD 8790M
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Cypress
Mars XTX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2009
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
900 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
384
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
68.00
21.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131