AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile and ATI Radeon HD 5870 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile

ATI Radeon HD 5870

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1011 MHz vs 850 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
12.5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 188 Watt
3.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7180 vs 1853

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 23 September 2009
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz vs 850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 188 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	7180 vs 1853

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870

2.8x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 411 vs 340
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2219 vs 1308

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	411 vs 340
PassMark - G3D Mark	2219 vs 1308

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5870

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

340

411

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1308

2219

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

7180

1853

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile	ATI Radeon HD 5870
PassMark - G2D Mark	340	411
PassMark - G3D Mark	1308	2219
Geekbench - OpenCL	7180	1853
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	738	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		18.789
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1339.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		43.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		245.813
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3349

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile	ATI Radeon HD 5870
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Raven	Cypress
Launch date	1 February 2018	23 September 2009
Place in performance rating	800	798
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz	850 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	188 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	2,154 million
Floating-point performance		2,720.0 gflops
Pipelines		1600
Texture fill rate		68.0 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		282 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		4800 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity