AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 76% higher boost clock speed: 1757 MHz vs 1000 MHz
2108.8x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 80 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 225 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Around 46% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1200 MHz

Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 5 March 2012
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s vs 80 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 225 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Around 82% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 77430 vs 42529

Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	77430 vs 42529

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

42529

77430

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL	42529	77430
PassMark - G3D Mark		4636
PassMark - G2D Mark		589
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		55.001
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		952.668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.767
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		64.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		294.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1651

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Navi 14	Pitcairn
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	5 March 2012
Place in performance rating	512	480
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz	1000 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1187 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	1280
Pixel fill rate	56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s	80 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	2,800 million
Floating-point performance		2,560 gflops
Stream Processors		1024
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Width	IGP
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
Length		241 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	11
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync