ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9170

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 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

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (105W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +447%

2.72 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Nov 2007

Evergreen

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

4

1600

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV670

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

105W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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