ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 +119%

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 560

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2011

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

320

Shading Units

336

16

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.34 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

45.36 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

90.72 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF114

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

GF114-325-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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