ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590 +3%

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Mar 2011

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

800

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

365W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GF110

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

3 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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