Radeon RX 5500 and Radeon HD 7870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon HD 7870
Radeon RX 5500
9100
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Radeon RX 5500
Radeon HD 7870
Architecture
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Navi 14
Pitcairn XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2019
March 2012
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1845 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,400 million
2800 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
162.4
80.00
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12.0 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131