NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Lower TDP (65W vs 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 440
0.311 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+774%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 400
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1600
16
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
12.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
311.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
25.92 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
65W
TDP
228W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
Cypress
GF108-400-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
