ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9250

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

AMD FireStream 9250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 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 late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +172%

2.72 TFLOPS

FireStream 9250

1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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FireStream 9250

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Jun 2008

Evergreen

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

993 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

63.55GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

10

-

1600

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV770

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

RV770 PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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