ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

1.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +250%

3.92 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Jun 2016

Manhattan

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

1664

40

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

28.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1120 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

GM204

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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