ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI 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
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+7671%
2.72 TFLOPS
GeForce 210 PCI
0.035 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Oct 2009
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1600
Shading Units
16
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.900 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.20 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
31W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GT216
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.486 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
