ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM 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 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Lower TDP (85W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+38%
2.72 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 260 OEM
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Dec 2013
Evergreen
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
896
80
TMUs
56
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
17.60 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
85W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 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
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Bonaire
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Bonaire XT
(215-0839039)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
6.3
