ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2010
Unknown
Generation
Evergreen
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
—
950 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
32
Shading Units
1600
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
228W
375W
Suggested PSU
550 W
750 W
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.