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Radeon HD 5770 vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

The Radeon HD 5770 has a GPU core clock speed of 850 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1200 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6870, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1050 MHz on this model. It features 1120 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs 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

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 6870 should be quite a bit 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 (more or less 48%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5770. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6870 is a better choice, 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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach 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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