Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon RX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1545MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Radeon RX 590
+161%
7119
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Nov 2018
Evergreen
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1469 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
36
1600
Shading Units
2304
80
TMUs
144
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
49.44 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
175W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
12 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
