Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 sales 11 March 2010 at a recommended price of $479 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 153.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 279 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 228 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameCypress
Market segmentDesktop
Release date11 March 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1600of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed850 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors2,154 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)228 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate68.00of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs80of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length279 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1200 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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