Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (159W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+518%
2720
FireGL V8600
440
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
May 2007
Evergreen
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
4
1600
Shading Units
320
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
159W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
R600
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
