ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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

Lower TDP (228W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +78%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Nov 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

40

-

1600

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Hawaii

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

438 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

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