Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 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 4 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+447%
2720
FireStream 9170
497
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Nov 2007
Evergreen
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/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
12.43 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
105W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
RV670
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
