Radeon RX 480 Mobile and Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon RX 480 Mobile
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Polaris
Cypress
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
June 2010
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1077 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,963 gflops
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
228 Watt
Texture fill rate
155.1
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
4780 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
153.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A