Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT 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 304W)
Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 15 years late
Boost Clock2970MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+1688%
48660
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Mar 2025
Evergreen
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1660 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2970 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
64
1600
Shading Units
4096
80
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
64
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
380.2 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
760.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
97.32 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.66 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.521 TFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
304W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Navi 48
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
Shader Model
6.8
