Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (228W vs 250W)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+110%
5728
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Apr 2017
Evergreen
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
36
1600
Shading Units
2304
80
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
Shader Model
6.7
