Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition
AMD graphics card · Radeon HD 5000 series · launched March 2010
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Launch price in today's dollars
The Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition launched at $479 in 2010. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $727 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 52% rise over 16 years.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2010 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Specifications
| Vendor | AMD |
|---|---|
| Series | Radeon HD 5000 series |
| Launched | March 2010 |
| Launch price | $479 |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 |
| Chip | Cypress XT |
| Memory | 2 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s |
| Core clock | 850 MHz |
| FP32 compute | 2.72 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 228 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 2.2 billion |
| Die size | 334 mm² |
| Process | 40 nm |
| Bus interface | PCIe 2.1 x16 |
| Tier | 80-class |
The AMD 80-class over time
AMD graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radeon HD 4830 | 2008 | $130 | $200 | — |
| Radeon HD 4850 X2 | 2008 | $339 | $521 | — |
| Radeon HD 4890 | 2009 | $249 | $384 | — |
| Radeon HD 4810 | 2009 | — | — | — |
| Radeon HD 4860 | 2009 | — | — | — |
| Radeon HD 5850 | 2009 | $259 | $399 | — |
| Radeon HD 5870 | 2009 | $379 | $584 | — |
| Radeon HD 5830 | 2010 | $239 | $363 | — |
| Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition | 2010 | $479 | $727 | — |
| Radeon HD 6850 | 2010 | $179 | $272 | — |
| Radeon HD 6870 | 2010 | $239 | $363 | — |
| Radeon HD 7850 | 2012 | $250 | $360 | — |
| Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition | 2012 | $350 | $504 | — |
| Radeon HD 7870 XT | 2012 | $270 | $389 | — |
| Radeon R9 280X | 2013 | $299 | $425 | — |
| Radeon R9 280 | 2014 | $249 | $348 | — |
Compare with
- Radeon HD 6970 · 2010 · $369
- Radeon HD 5870 · 2009 · $379
- Radeon HD 5970 · 2009 · $599
- Radeon HD 7970 · 2011 · $550
- GeForce GTX 480 · 2010 · $499
- GeForce GTX 580 · 2010 · $499
- GeForce GTX 295 · 2009 · $499
- GeForce GTX 295 Single PCB · 2009 · $499
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