Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon RX 570 X2 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7870

Radeon RX 570 X2

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Pitcairn XT

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2012

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1206 MHz

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2800 Million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

180 Watt

Texture fill rate

80.00

154.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

8.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

268.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

1x HDMI 2.0b

Eyefinity

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3