NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1360 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (228W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +337%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

240

Shading Units

1600

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cypress

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

228W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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