ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 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

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (175W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +6%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Mar 2012

Evergreen

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

20

-

1600

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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