ATI Radeon HD 5870
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
ATI Radeon HD 5870
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards ATI Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

446
Place in performance rating
97
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Turing
Cypress
Code name
TU106B
Desktop
Type
Laptop
23 September 2009 (12 years ago)
Release date
6 January 2019 (2 years ago)
$399
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$218 (0.5x MSRP)
Price now
$1311
2.05
Value for money
10.36
Cypress
GPU code name
N18E-G2 MAX-Q TU106
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between ATI Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1600
Pipelines
2304
850 MHz
Core clock speed
885-1080 MHz
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Boost Clock
1185 MHz
2,154 million
Transistor count
10,800 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
188 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
68.00
Texture fill rate
170.6
2,720.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
1600
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
no data
Boost clock speed
1185-1305 MHz
2,154 million
Number of transistors
10,800 million
188 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
80 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
282 mm
Length
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2x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
no data
Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics ATI Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR6
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
4800 MHz
Memory clock speed
12000 MHz
153.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
384.0 GB/s
no data
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards ATI Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
No outputs
no data
G-SYNC support
+
+
HDMI
no data

Technologies

The difference between ATI Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q is the additional functionality.

no data
VR Ready
+
no data
Multi Monitor
+
no data
CUDA
7.5

API support

The difference in supported APIs is ATI Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
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Vulkan
1.2.131
no data
Shader Model
6.5
no data
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for ATI Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the ATI Radeon HD 5870 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) ATI Radeon HD 5870
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
Death Stranding (2020) ATI Radeon HD 5870
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
F1 2020 (2020) ATI Radeon HD 5870
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
Gears Tactics (2020) ATI Radeon HD 5870
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 238.2 152.6 91.4 72 62.7 26.3
Doom Eternal (2020) ATI Radeon HD 5870
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 173 150 132 127 85.3 55.2
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of ATI Radeon HD 5870

Cheaper ($218 (0.5x MSRP) vs $1311)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

46.56% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (2304 vs 1600)

Finer manufacturing process technology (12 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (80 Watt vs 188 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (8 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (384.0 GB/s vs 153.6 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, ATI Radeon HD 5870 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q .

ATI Radeon HD 5870 versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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