Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
1480 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+1316%
2720
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
192
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jun 2007
Evergreen
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
3
1600
Shading Units
120
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.400 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
45W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
RV630
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
