ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 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 219W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (152.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 +182%

1.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2010

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

152.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

320

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

40

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.96 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.92 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1405 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

175.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

219W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF110

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

GF110-275-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

3 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

520 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

2.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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