ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +81%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Aug 2016

Evergreen

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

32

-

1600

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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