ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon HD 6570

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ATI Radeon HD 5870

AMD Radeon HD 6570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6570 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +335%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6570

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

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Radeon HD 6570

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Apr 2011

Evergreen

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

6

-

1600

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

188W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Turks

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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