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Radeon HD 5770 vs Radeon HD 5870

Intro

The Radeon HD 5770 uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1200 MHz on this specific card. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5870, which features GPU core speed of 850 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1200 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1600(320x5) Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5770 108 Watts
Radeon HD 5870 188 Watts
Difference: 80 Watts (74%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 5870 should in theory be much better than the Radeon HD 5770 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 153600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5770 76800 MB/sec
Difference: 76800 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5870 is a lot (approximately 100%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5770. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 68000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5770 34000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 34000 (100%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5870 is superior to the Radeon HD 5770, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 27200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5770 13600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 13600 (100%)

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 5870
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 13, 2009 September 23, 2009
Code Name Juniper XT Cypress XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 850 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 4800 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 108 watts 188 watts
Bandwidth 76800 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 34000 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 13600 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 1600(320x5)
Texture Mapping Units 40 80
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1040 million 2154 million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Comments

One Response to “Radeon HD 5770 vs Radeon HD 5870”
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