NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +83%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

2048

Shading Units

1600

128

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

188W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Cypress

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

398 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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