GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+44%
3920
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
2720
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
1664
Shading Units
1600
104
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
228W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Cypress
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
