Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTX 460 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
1264 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 460 X2 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Lower TDP (160W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+188%
2720
GeForce GTX 460 X2
942
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Mar 2011
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
1600
Shading Units
336
80
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.814 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.26 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
941.5 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
78.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
160W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GF104
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GF104-300-KB-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
