Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTX 650

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Mar 2010
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    148%
  • GeForce GTX 650
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Around 48% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

163 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 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

The Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6GeForce GTX 650
GPU NameCypress (Cypress XT)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders1600vs384
Compute Units20vs2
Core clock850 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6GeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6GeForce GTX 650
TDP228 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date11 Mar 2010vs27 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    27.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    68.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    154.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    2720.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    4290
  • GeForce GTX 650
    2880

Points (higher is better)