ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (228W vs 580W)
AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2.72 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 390 X2
+88%
5.12 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Sep 2015
Evergreen
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
40
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
2560
80
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
160.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.120 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
640.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
580W
550 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Grenada
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Grenada PRO
(215-0880030)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
6.3
