Radeon RX 640 vs ATI HD 5870 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated612
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data7.20
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameCypressPolaris 23
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date30 June 2010 (14 years ago)13 May 2019 (5 years ago)
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 cores1600640
Core clock speed850 MHz1082 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1218 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)228 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate68.0048.72
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS1.559 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs8040

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1195 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.0 GB/s48 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2010 13 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 228 Watt 50 Watt

RX 640 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 356% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and Radeon RX 640. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition is a desktop card while Radeon RX 640 is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
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