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Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
320 additional rendering cores
Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1050MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
Lower TDP (180W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +1%
2720
Radeon R9 270X
2688

Graphics Card

Mar 2010
Release Date
Oct 2013
Evergreen
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s

Render Config

20
Compute Units
20
1600
Shading Units
1280
80
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W
TDP
180W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress
GPU Name
Curacao
Cypress XT (215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Curacao XT (215-0848004)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
212 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
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