ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (106W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +352%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

0.601 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Mar 2011

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1600

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

106W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF116

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GF116-200-KA-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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