Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 6610
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6610 |
| 149 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5870
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 6610 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | Redwood (Redwood PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 104 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 627 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 400 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 20 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 6610 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 6610 | |
|---|
| TDP | 188 watts | vs | 39 watts |
| Release Date | 23 Sep 2009 | vs | 20 Mar 2013 |
Radeon HD 5870
27.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 6610
5.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
68.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 6610
13.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
154.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 6610
25.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
2720.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6610
520.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better