ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GT 610

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1144	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01	no data
Power efficiency	1.92	no data
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	GF119	Cypress
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	2 April 2012 (12 years ago)	11 March 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$39.99	$479

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	48	1600
Core clock speed	810 MHz	850 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	29 Watt	228 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	102 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	6.480	68.00
Floating-point processing power	0.1555 TFLOPS	2.72 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	32
TMUs	8	80

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 support	PCI Express 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	279 mm
Height	2.7" (6.9 cm)	no data
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 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 type	DDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1024 MB	2 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1.8 GB/s	1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	153.6 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 Connectors	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI, VGA	6x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	-
HDCP	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	Internal	no data

Supported technologies

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

3D Blu-Ray

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.2	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	2 April 2012	11 March 2010
Maximum RAM amount	1024 MB	2 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	29 Watt	228 Watt

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