ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2009
Dec 2016
Generation
Evergreen
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1233 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
36
Shading Units
1600
2304
TMUs
80
144
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
39.46 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
5.682 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Ellesmere XT
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
188W
150W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.4