Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Mar 2010
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Jul 2009
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    325%
  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Around 225% 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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTS 240 OEM

108 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

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 GTS 240 OEM
GPU NameCypress (Cypress XT)vsG92B (G92-240-B1)
Fab Process40 nmvs55 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs754 million
Shaders1600vs112
Compute Units20vs7
Core clock850 MHzvs675 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6GeForce GTS 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6GeForce GTS 240 OEM
TDP228 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date11 Mar 2010vs1 Jul 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    27.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    10.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    68.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    37.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    154.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    70.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    2720.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    362.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    4290
  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    1320

Points (higher is better)