Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce 9400 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1 GB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT 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 1 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+9279%
2720
GeForce 9400 GT
29
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Aug 2008
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1 GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1600
Shading Units
16
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G86S
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0