Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon R9 285
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 285 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (190W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Radeon R9 285
+20%
3290
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Sep 2014
Evergreen
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
28
1600
Shading Units
1792
80
TMUs
112
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
29.38 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
102.8 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
3.290 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.290 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
205.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
190W
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
Tonga
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Tonga PRO
(215-0851128)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
5 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
5.0
Shader Model
6.5
