AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Lower TDP (228W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +50%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

20

-

2048

Shading Units

1600

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

228W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 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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