Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTX 650
Summary
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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
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).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | GK106 () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 1058 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| TDP | 228 watts | vs | 65 watts |
| Release Date | 11 Mar 2010 | vs | 27 Nov 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)