ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra 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 9 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Aug 2000

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

NV15

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Celsius

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

180 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

7.0

4.4

OpenGL

1.5

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

-

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