ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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

576 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (130W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +54%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Mar 2012

Evergreen

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

16

-

1600

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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