ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 590
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2010
Nov 2018
Generation
Evergreen
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
—
1469 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1545 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
36
Shading Units
1600
2304
TMUs
80
144
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
49.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
7.119 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
Polaris 30
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
228W
175W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.