RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated72
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data81.28
Power efficiencyno data45.35
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCypressAD107
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date11 March 2010 (14 years ago)12 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 $649

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 cores16002816
Core clock speed850 MHz1620 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2130 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)228 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate68.00187.4
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS12 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs8088
Tensor Coresno data88
Ray Tracing Coresno data22

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length279 mm168 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s256.0 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.8
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 March 2010 12 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 228 Watt 70 Watt

RTX 2000 Ada Generation has an age advantage of 13 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 225.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and RTX 2000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 is a desktop card while RTX 2000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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