Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (215W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+149%
2720
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
1089
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Unknown
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
1600
Shading Units
448
80
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
40
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
215W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GT215
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GT215-400-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
144 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
2.0
5.0
Shader Model
5.1