Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (228W vs 300W)
A40 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
9152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
A40 PCIe
+1275%
37420
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Oct 2020
Evergreen
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1305 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
84
1600
Shading Units
10752
80
TMUs
336
32
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GA102
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.0
Shader Model
6.6
