NVIDIA NVS 300 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA NVS 300

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 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 NVS 300 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (18W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

1584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +6874%

2.72 TFLOPS

NVS 300

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2010

NVS

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

790 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1600

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

18W

TDP

228W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Cypress

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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