ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs AMD FireStream 9250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+172%
2.72 TFLOPS
FireStream 9250
1 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jun 2008
Evergreen
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
993 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
63.55GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
800
80
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
RV770
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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5.0
Shader Model
4.1
