ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 52.48GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (135W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +553%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

0.416 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Dec 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

820 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

52.48GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G92

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

G92-400-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

135W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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