Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR 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 10 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Oct 1999
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
1600
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
NV10
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
220 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.4
OpenGL
1.2
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
-