Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 5850
Radeon HD 5870
2282
Radeon HD 5850
2048
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon HD 5850
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Cypress
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
September 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
850 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
2,088.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
151 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
52.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A