Quadro FX 5800 and Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 - video card comparison

Quadro FX 5800

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

GT200B

Cypress

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

November 2008

March 2010

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

610 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

2,720.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

2,154 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

1600

Power consumption (TDP)

189 Watt

228 Watt

Texture fill rate

48.80

68.00

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

4800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

153.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

6x mini-DisplayPort

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

1.3

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

3.3

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A