Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon RX 470D
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Radeon RX 470D
+58%
4322
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Oct 2016
Evergreen
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
926 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/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
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.322 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.322 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
270.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
120W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PROD
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
232 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
5.0
Shader Model
6.4
