ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs Quadro FX 3500

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1175not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.58no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameG71Cypress
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date22 May 2006 (18 years ago)11 March 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,599 $479

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data1600
Core clock speed450 MHz850 MHz
Number of transistors278 million2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt228 Watt
Texture fill rate9.00068.00
Floating-point processing powerno data2.72 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs2080

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length173 mm279 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed660 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth42.24 GB/s153.6 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video6x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.0
OpenGL2.14.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 May 2006 11 March 2010
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 228 Watt

FX 3500 has 185% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 5870 Eyefinity 6, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 3500 and Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 3500 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
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