ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs HD 6870

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking598not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.00no data
Power efficiency2.61no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBartsCypress
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date21 October 2010 (14 years ago)11 March 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$239 $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 cores11201600
Core clock speedno data850 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,700 million2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt228 Watt
Texture fill rate50.4068.00
Floating-point processing power2.016 TFLOPS2.72 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs5680

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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.0 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length220 mm279 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1050 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth134.4 GB/s153.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort6x mini-DisplayPort
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Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1111.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2010 11 March 2010
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 228 Watt

HD 6870 has an age advantage of 7 months, and 51% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 5870 Eyefinity 6, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6. We've got no test results to judge.


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