Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Vega

Cypress

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2020

March 2010

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2100 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,720.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

1600

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

228 Watt

Texture fill rate

68.00

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort

DirectX

12_1

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

Shader Model

5.0

Vulkan

N/A