Arctic Sound-M vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameCypressArctic Sound
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date11 March 2010 (14 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 no data

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 cores16008192
Core clock speed850 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)228 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate68.00230.4
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS14.75 TFLOPS
ROPs32128
TMUs80256

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 x16
Length279 mm267 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin8-pin EPS

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 typeGDDR5HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s1.23 TB/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-DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 228 Watt 500 Watt

ATI HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 has 119.3% lower power consumption.

Arctic Sound-M, on the other hand, has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

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

Be aware that Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 is a desktop card while Arctic Sound-M is a workstation one.


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