NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT 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

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +709%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jun 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

1600

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

228W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Cypress

G92-270-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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