AMD Radeon HD 5870
VLIW5 (Cypress XT)
Architecture
High-end
Product Tier
1600
Shader Cores
32
ROPs
80
TMUs
No RT
Ray Tracing
1 GB
Memory
GDDR5
Memory Type
153.6 GB/s
Bandwidth
188 W
TDP
| GPU Snapshot | |||
| Release date: | Sep 23, 2009 | Price at Launch: | $399 |
| Type: | Desktop | Architecture: | VLIW5 (Cypress XT) |
| Generation: | Radeon HD 5000 series | Product Tier: | High-end |
| VRAM Capacity: | 1 GB | Total Board Power: | 188 W |
| Core Configuration | |||
| Shader Cores: | 1600 | TMUs: | 80 |
| ROPs: | 32 | L2 Cache: | 512 KB |
| Memory | |||
| VRAM Capacity: | 1 GB | Memory Type: | GDDR5 |
| Memory Speed: | 4.8 Gbps | Memory Bus: | 256-bit |
| Bandwidth: | 153.6 GB/s | ||
| Graphics Processing | |||
| Base Clock: | 0.85 GHz | FP32 Throughput: | 2.72 TFLOPs |
| Ray Tracing: | No | Process Size: | 40nm |
| Process Name: | TSMC 40nm | Die Size: | 334 mm² |
| Power & Connectivity | |||
| Total Board Power: | 188 W | Power Connectors: | 2x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface: | PCIe 2.0 x16 | HDMI Support: | HDMI 1.3 |
| DisplayPort Support: | DP 1.1 | DSC: | No |
| Max Displays: | 3 | ||
| Media & Software Support | |||
| DirectX Support: | 11.2 | Shader Model: | 5.0 |
| OpenGL Version: | 4.4 | ||
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