Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce 8800 Ultra
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages
Lower TDP (171W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+602%
2720
GeForce 8800 Ultra
387
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
May 2007
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1080 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
103.7GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1600
Shading Units
128
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
24
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
96 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.69 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.17 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
387.1 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
171W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G80
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
G80-450-A3
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
90 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.681 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
484 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1 (1.0)
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.0
5.0
Shader Model
4.0