Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon 550X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
Radeon 550X 's Advantages
Released 9 years late
Boost Clock1218MHz
Lower TDP (50W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+118%
2720
Radeon 550X
1247
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Mar 2019
Evergreen
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1082 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1218 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
8
1600
Shading Units
512
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.49 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.98 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1247 GFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1247 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.95 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Lexa
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
6.4
