ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 ATI Radeon HD 4720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +608%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Dec 2011

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

4

1600

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV730

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

55W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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