ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 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

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +126%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Jun 2010

Radeon R700

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

20

800

Shading Units

1600

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Cypress

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

228W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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