ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +958%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Nov 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1600

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

228W

TDP

69W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GT215

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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