ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2010
Apr 2014
Generation
Evergreen
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
44
Shading Units
1600
2816
TMUs
80
176
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
65.15 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
Vesuvius
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Vesuvius XT(215-0852022)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
228W
500W
Suggested PSU
550 W
900 W
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.