NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 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 GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+137%
6.463 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 10
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
15
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
1600
120
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
228W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Cypress
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
40 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
