Radeon RX 590 vs ATI HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated227
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data25.52
Power efficiencyno data9.67
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameCypressPolaris 30
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 March 2010 (14 years ago)15 November 2018 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 $279

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 cores16002304
Core clock speed850 MHz1469 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)228 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate68.00222.5
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS7.119 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs80144

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 3.0 x16
Length279 mm241 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 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 amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s256.0 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 March 2010 15 November 2018
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 228 Watt 175 Watt

RX 590 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 233.3% more advanced lithography process, and 30.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and Radeon RX 590. We've got no test results to judge.


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