GeForce GTX 490 vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
1120 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (228W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
1166
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+133%
2720
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 400
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
15
SM Count
-
480
Shading Units
1600
60
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
228W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
Cypress
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
