Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (228W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+107%
5632
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Mar 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
20
2816
Shading Units
1600
176
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
228W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
Cypress
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.3
Shader Model
5.0
