NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (135W vs 188W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 52.48GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

0.416 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 +553%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

820 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

52.48GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

128

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

41.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

416.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Cypress

G92-400-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

Board Design

135W

TDP

188W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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