Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon R7 250X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X 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 72.00GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Lower TDP (80W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+123%
2720
Radeon R7 250X
1216
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Feb 2014
Evergreen
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
10
1600
Shading Units
640
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
15.20 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.00 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1216 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
80W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Cape Verde
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Cape Verde XT
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
123 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
