ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 X2 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 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 63.68GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (228W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +172%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Nov 2008

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

995 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

63.68GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

10

-

1600

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

4x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

R700

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

R700 PRO (215-0669065)

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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