Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon R5 235X OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X OEM 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 14.40GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Lower TDP (18W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+871%
2720
Radeon R5 235X OEM
280
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Dec 2013
Evergreen
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
2
1600
Shading Units
160
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.500 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.000 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
280.0 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
18W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Caicos
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
67 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
