ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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 134.4GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (228W vs 375W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +152%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Unknown

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1600

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

228W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF100

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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