
Radeon HD 5870 and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5870
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
Cypress
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2009
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
6
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
68.00
6.900
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80