Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (228W vs 230W)
Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages
Released 11 years late
Boost Clock2581MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+385%
13210
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Mar 2021
Evergreen
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2321 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2581 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
40
1600
Shading Units
2560
80
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
RT Cores
40
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
512 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
L3 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
165.2 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
413.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.43 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.21 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
825.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
230W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Navi 22
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Navi 22 XT
(215-127000006)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
7 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
17.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
335 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
Shader Model
6.5
