ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 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 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +203%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Sep 2009

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

8

-

1600

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV790

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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