Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon HD 6870 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 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 134.4GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (228W vs 300W)
Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+34%
2720
Radeon HD 6870 X2
2016
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jul 2011
Evergreen
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
14
1600
Shading Units
1120
80
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Barts
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Barts XT
(215-0798000)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
255 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
5.0
