Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon RX 5900 XT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon RX 5900 XT
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Cypress
Navi 21
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1735 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
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Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
21,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
4352
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
471.9
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
672.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
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