AMD Radeon RX 560X vs ATI Radeon HD 5870
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2018
Sep 2009
Generation
Polaris
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1175 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1275 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
20
Shading Units
1024
1600
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
20.40 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
81.60 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.611 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
2.611 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
163.2 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 21
Cypress
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XT(215-0908004)
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
123 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
188W
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.