AMD Radeon R7 250X vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250X

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X 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 R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (80W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +123%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Mar 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

20

-

640

Shading Units

1600

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

228W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Cypress

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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