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Radeon HD 5770 vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

The Radeon HD 5770 comes with core speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6870, which has a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1050 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1120 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5770 108 Watts
Radeon HD 6870 151 Watts
Difference: 43 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6870 should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 5770 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 134400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5770 76800 MB/sec
Difference: 57600 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6870 should be quite a bit (approximately 48%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 5770. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5770 34000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16400 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6870 is superior to the Radeon HD 5770, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 28800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5770 13600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15200 (112%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 5770 Radeon HD 6870
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 13, 2009 October 2010
Code Name Juniper XT Barts XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 850 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 4800 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 108 watts 151 watts
Bandwidth 76800 MB/sec 134400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 34000 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 13600 Mpixels/sec 28800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 1120
Texture Mapping Units 40 56
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1040 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Comments

5 Responses to “Radeon HD 5770 vs Radeon HD 6870”
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myfishbear says:

i made the change from a sapphire 5770 toxic to another sapphire 6870... it was def worth the change... i played dead rising 2 on both cards... the 5770 could only handle trilinear and med zombies and low shadows... the 6870 does it easily on 4x af and everything else on high... the 6870 does very well even with shadows and everything.

english translation says:

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