ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS 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 9 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 5.312GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Apr 2000
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 2
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
166 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
5.312GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
800.0 MPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.600 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
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544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
NV15
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GeForce2 GTS
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
180 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.025 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
88 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.4
OpenGL
1.5
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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5.0
Shader Model
-
