AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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AMD Radeon HD 6930 ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (186W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930

1.92 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +41%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Mar 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

20

1280

Shading Units

1600

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Cypress

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

186W

TDP

228W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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