ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +12%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jan 2015

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GM206

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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