Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 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 1 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1568 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+2922%
2720
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
90
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jan 2009
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1600
Shading Units
32
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G96C
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0