ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 105.8GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (90W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +49%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Aug 2015

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1024 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GM206

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

90W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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