Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs CMP 170HX 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 8GB VRAM CMP 170HX 8 GB 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 250W)
CMP 170HX 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1410MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.49TB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
2880 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
CMP 170HX 8 GB
+364%
12630
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Sep 2021
Evergreen
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1140 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1458 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
1.49TB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
70
1600
Shading Units
4480
80
TMUs
280
32
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
280
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
180.5 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
394.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
50.53 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.63 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.317 TFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GA100
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GA100-105F-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
7 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.4
OpenGL
N/A
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
5.0
Shader Model
N/A
