Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti 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 98.50GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Lower TDP (116W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+293%
2720
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
691
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Mar 2011
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1026 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
98.50GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1600
Shading Units
192
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
24
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.80 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
691.2 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
116W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GF116
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GF116-400-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
238 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
