ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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Products
GPU ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 AMD · 2010-03
GPU ATI Radeon HD 5970 AMD · 2009-11
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2010
Nov 2009
Generation
Evergreen
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
20
Shading Units
1600
1600
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
Hemlock
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
228W
294W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.