NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 107.1GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (188W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 X2

0.855 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 +218%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 400

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

107.1GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

11

SM Count

-

352

Shading Units

1600

44

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

26.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

855.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

188W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Cypress

GF100-030-A3

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

529 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

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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