Radeon RX 5770 vs ATI HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name	Cypress	Navi 10
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	11 March 2010 (15 years ago)	no data
Launch price (MSRP)	$479	no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1600	no data
Core clock speed	850 MHz	1000 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1000 MHz
Number of transistors	2,154 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	228 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	68.00	no data
Floating-point processing power	2.72 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	no data
TMUs	80	no data
L1 Cache	160 KB	no data
L2 Cache	512 KB	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	279 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	no data
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	no data
Memory bus width	256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	no data
Resizable BAR	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	40 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	228 Watt	225 Watt

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