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Radeon HD 5770 vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

The Radeon HD 5770 features a core clock frequency of 850 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1200 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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

(No game benchmarks for this combination yet.)

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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 6870 should in theory be quite a bit superior to 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 is quite a bit (about 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

The Radeon HD 6870 will be quite a bit (approximately 112%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 5770, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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.

Price Comparison

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Radeon HD 5770

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Radeon HD 6870

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Specifications

Model Radeon HD 5770 Radeon HD 6870
Manufacturer ATi ATi
Year October 13, 2009 October 2010
Code Name Juniper XT Barts XT
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe x16
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 850 MHz 900 MHz
Shader Speed N/A MHz (N/A) MHz
Memory Speed 1200 MHz (4800 MHz effective) 1050 MHz (4200 MHz effective)
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
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP) 108 watts 151 watts
Shader Model 5.0 5.0
Bandwidth 76800 MB/sec 134400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 34000 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 13600 Mpixels/sec 28800 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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.

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