NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (228W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
1.078 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+152%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 400
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
134.4GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
16
SM Count
-
512
Shading Units
1600
64
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
33.73 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1078 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
375W
TDP
228W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
Cypress
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
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
