AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT and ATI Radeon HD 5830 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• Around 16% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 800 MHz
• Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 975 MHz vs 800 MHz
• 2.1x more texture fill rate: 93.6 GTexel / s vs 44.8 GTexel / s
• Around 37% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1120
• Around 67% better floating-point performance: 2,995 gflops vs 1,792.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 4000 MHz
• 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4470 vs 1735
• Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 661 vs 403

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5830

• Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 185 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5830

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	4470 1735
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	661 403

Compare specifications (specs)