ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +2824%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Apr 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1600

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

228W

TDP

60W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G84

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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