ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V3900

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

ATI FirePro V3900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V3900 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V3900 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +335%

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro V3900

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

FirePro V3900

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Feb 2012

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

6

-

1600

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

228W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Turks

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Turks GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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