ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra 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 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +602%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

May 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G80

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

171W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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