ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +161%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Nov 2018

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

36

1600

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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