Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon R9 370X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 370X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1030MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
Lower TDP (180W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+3%
2720
Radeon R9 370X
2637
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Aug 2015
Evergreen
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
980 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1030 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
24
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
32.96 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
82.40 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.637 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
164.8 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
Trinidad
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Trinidad XT
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
