Radeon RX 550 Mobile and Radeon HD 5870 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 550 Mobile
Radeon HD 5870
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Cypress
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
September 2009
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1476 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1287 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,647 gflops
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
188 Watt
Texture fill rate
51.48
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
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
FreeSync
+
-