Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs FireStream 9250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 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 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+172%
2720
FireStream 9250
1000
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jun 2008
Evergreen
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
993 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
63.55GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
10
1600
Shading Units
800
80
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
RV770
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
