Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Boost Clock925MHz
Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
576 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 270 1024SP
1894
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+43%
2720
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Mar 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
-
925 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
20
1024
Shading Units
1600
64
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
59.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
1.894 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
228W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
Cypress
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
