Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce RTX 5080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Advantages
Lower TDP (228W vs 360W)
GeForce RTX 5080 Advantages
Released 14 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2617MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
9152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
GeForce RTX 5080
+1969%
56280
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jan 2025
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2295 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
960.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
84
1600
Shading Units
10752
80
TMUs
336
32
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
293.1 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
879.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
56.28 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
56.28 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
879.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
360W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GB203
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GB203-400-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
45.6 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
378 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
10.1
5.0
Shader Model
6.8