Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon R9 290X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (228W vs 290W)
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Radeon R9 290X
+107%
5632
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
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
44
1600
Shading Units
2816
80
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
290W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 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
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Hawaii
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
6.3
