Radeon RX 5500 XT and Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition - video card comparison
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
Architecture
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Navi 14 XTX
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2019
January 2013
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1845 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,720 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,400 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
162.4
68.00
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
4200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
134.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.5
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A