ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT 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 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +9279%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9400 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Aug 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1600

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 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 VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G86

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

127 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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