Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
GeForce GTX 970
+44%
3920
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Sep 2014
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
1600
Shading Units
1664
80
TMUs
104
32
ROPs
56
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
148W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GM204
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
398 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
5.2
5.0
Shader Model
6.4