Technical data / specifications

To power the ASUS EAH5870 you'll "only" need two 6-pin power plugs. Especially owners of older power supplies might be happy about this fact. According to ATI the new RV870 only draws 27 Watts when it's idle. Unter load the maximum TDP (Thermal Design Power) is claimed to be 188 Watt. These are absolute top values for a graphics card with these specifications. Achieving this goal meant that ATI had to lower core and memory clocks from 850/1200 MHz to only 158/300 MHz.
If the 5870 is being compared to it's predecessor the 4890, it looks like nearly all the specs have been doubled. Therefore the number of shader units increased from 800 to 1600, ROPs you'll now find 32 insted of 16 and even the ALU's and TMU's were doubled.

	ASUS EAH5970	ASUS EAH5870	ASUS EAH5850
Chip	2x RV870	RV870	RV870
Process	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm
Transistors	ca. 2x 2.15 Mrd.	ca. 2.15Mrd.	ca. 2.15 Mrd.
GPU clock	725 MHz	850 MHz	750 MHz
Shader (MADD)	2x 1600 (320 5D)	1600 (320 5D)	1440 (288 5D)
Shader clock	725 MHz	850 MHz	750 MHz
Memory	2x 1024MB GDDR5	1024MB GDDR5	1024MB GDDR5
Memory clock	2000 MHz	2400 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory interface	256 Bit	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory bandwidth	2x 128'000 MB/s	153'600 MB/s	128'000 MB/s
ROPs	2x 32 ROP	32 ROP	32 ROP
TMUs	2x 80	80	72
TAUs	2x 80	80	72
Shader model	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5
Maximum board power	294 Watt	188 Watt	170 Watt

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 9 - PT Boats
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 10 - X3 Terran Conflict
Page 3 -Preview	Page 11 - Streetfighter 4
Page 4 - Overclocking	Page 12 - World in Conflict
Page 5 - Testing conditions	Page 13 - Resident Evil 5
Page 6 - 3DMark 06	Page 14 - Call of Juarez
Page 7 - 3DMark Vantage	Page 15 - Far Cry 2
Page 8 - Furmark	Page 16 - Conclusion

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