AMD Radeon RX 550 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 and ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 RX 550

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 850 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
4.6x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 228 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 46% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 4800 MHz

Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 11 March 2010
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 228 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 4800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
3.1x more pipelines: 1600 vs 512
2266.7x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs

Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1600 vs 512
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Name	AMD Radeon RX 550	ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
PassMark - G3D Mark	2690
PassMark - G2D Mark	476
Geekbench - OpenCL	11610
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	33.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1037.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	52.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	140.911
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2158
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	127

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 550	ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Lexa	Cypress
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	11 March 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$79	$479
Place in performance rating	876	not rated
Price now	$75
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	59.51
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.2 TFLOPs	2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	1600
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel / s	68.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	228 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	2,154 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	6x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	279 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	4800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)