Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTS 250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 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 late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+602%
2720
GeForce GTS 250
387
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Mar 2009
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1600
Shading Units
128
80
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.23 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.93 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
387.1 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G92B
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
G92-428-B1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
260 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0