ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3830

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 3830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3830 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 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 26.50GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3830 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +535%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3830

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 3830

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Apr 2008

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

26.50GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

4

-

1600

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV670

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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