Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon Pro 5500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon Pro 5500 XT
Radeon HD 6870
2285
Radeon Pro 5500 XT
8609
Radeon HD 6870
Radeon Pro 5500 XT
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name
RV940 Barts
Navi 14
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
October 2010
August 2020
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1757 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,016.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
6,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1120
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
125 Watt
Texture fill rate
50.40
168.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-