Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon RX 5800 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7870

Radeon RX 5800

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Pitcairn XT

Navi 23

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2012

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1735 MHz

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

2800 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

3072

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

275 Watt

Texture fill rate

80.00

333.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12.0 (12_1)

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131