AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP 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

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +98%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

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Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2010

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

20

640

Shading Units

1600

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Cypress

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

228W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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