Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon HD 4890
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4890 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 124.8GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 4890 's Advantages
Lower TDP (190W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+100%
2720
Radeon HD 4890
1360
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Apr 2009
Evergreen
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
975 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
124.8GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
10
1600
Shading Units
800
80
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.60 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.00 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1360 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
272.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
190W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
RV790
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
RV790 XT
(215-0758016)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.959 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
282 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
