Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon R7 240 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock780MHz
Lower TDP (50W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+445%
2720
Radeon R7 240 OEM
499
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Nov 2013
Evergreen
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
730 MHz
-
Boost Clock
780 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
5
1600
Shading Units
320
80
TMUs
20
32
ROPs
8
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.240 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
499.2 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Oland
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
