Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon X1950 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (57W vs 228W)
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jan 2007
Evergreen
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
1600
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
12
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
57W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
RV570
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
TeraScale 2
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
3.0
