Radeon HD 4520 vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4520 |
| 203 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4520 | | Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV710 () | vs | Cypress (Cypress XT) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 73 mm² | vs | 334 mm² |
| Transistors | 242 million | vs | 2,154 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 1600 |
| Compute Units | 1 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4520 | | Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective | vs | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4520 | | Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 | |
|---|
| TDP | 25 watts | vs | 228 watts |
| Release Date | 2 Dec 2009 | vs | 11 Mar 2010 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better