NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

20160 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Lower TDP (228W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +3933%

109.7 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 50

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

170

SM Count

-

21760

Shading Units

1600

680

TMUs

80

192

ROPs

32

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

88 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

228W

900 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

Cypress

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.154 billion

Unknown

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.0

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