ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 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 1GB)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (228W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +72%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Nov 2010

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF110

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

244W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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