Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon R5 Graphics - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon R5 Graphics
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Cypress
Spectre SL
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
September 2014
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
720 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
497 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
388.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
2,410 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
256
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
7.952
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131