Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTX 1080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (180W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
GeForce GTX 1080
+226%
8873
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
May 2016
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
20
1600
Shading Units
2560
80
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
180W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GP104
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
16 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.0
Shader Model
6.4