AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5730

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition ATI Radeon HD 5730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1200 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +338%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5730

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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Radeon HD 5730

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

5

1600

Shading Units

400

80

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Redwood

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

64W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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