NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +149%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

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Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jun 2010

GeForce 500

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

336

Shading Units

1600

56

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Cypress

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

228W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

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