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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1076MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (228W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti +122%
6.06 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2.72 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jun 2015
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz

Memory

6GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
1600
176
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W
TDP
228W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200
GPU Name
Cypress
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT (215-0735033)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
8 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
601 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
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
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