ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (228W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

9152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +1275%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Oct 2020

Evergreen

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1305 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

10752

80

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA102

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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