Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon Vega 7 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 5870

Radeon Vega 7

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Cypress

Cezanne

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2009

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

-

1900 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

2,720.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

9,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1600

448

Power consumption (TDP)

188 Watt

45 Watt

Texture fill rate

68.00

53.20

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_1)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2