Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon RX 5500 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6870

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)

GPU code name

RV940 Barts

Navi 14

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2010

October 2019

Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1845 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

1408

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

110 Watt

Texture fill rate

50.40

162.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1050 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

134.4 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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

-

1.2.131

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-