Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (228W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+152%
2720
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
1078
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Unknown
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1600
Shading Units
512
80
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
48
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.86 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.73 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1078 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
375W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GF100
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
5.0
Shader Model
5.1